Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 252
"Ex-general! What happened to you, ex-general?!"

"Call the medical worker! Call the medical worker quickly! Call the medical worker right away!"

"Bring the former general back to the account! Quick! Quick!"

Xiang Yu, who fainted again, caused all the people present to be in chaos. When he rescued Xiang Yu with all his might, he saw that Xiang Yu's face was like gold paper, his breathing was weak, and the blood in his right eye continued to flow. He hurriedly ordered people to carry Xiang Yu to the bed tent for rescue.During this period, the labor force mobilized many people, and the news of Xiang Yu's sudden serious injury spread quickly, which greatly affected the morale of the Chu army.

In addition, the news of Tian An's murder spread quickly. In the panic, Xiang Yu's absolute confidantes, Old Man Fan and Cao Jiu, and others only cared about his injuries, and completely forgot how to deal with the aftermath of Tian An's murder. Therefore, Tian An was killed by Xiang Yu. The news of the killing by himself was also quickly known by the soldiers of the Chu army, which caused quite a stir. It was also quickly known by the soldiers of the Qi State who escorted Tian An to meet Xiang Yu, and they could no longer hide the blockade.

It's still not bad, after all, Xiang Yu has a strong physique, exhausted all kinds of rescue methods, tossing until late at night, Xiang Yu finally got over this breath, although he has been unconscious all the time, his breathing has become much more stable, and his face is not. It was as ugly as it was at the beginning, but at least there was no danger of sudden death. Cao Jiu and Old Man Fan, who hadn't even eaten dinner, felt a little relieved, and discussed how to deal with the current situation beside Xiang Yu's sick bed.

"There must be no way to hide Tian An's death." Old man Fan was the first to speak, and said: "Now that things have come to an end, we can only make mistakes. Regardless of whether Tian An was wronged or not, we can only insist that he was killed by Xiang Kang. He bought him and came back to act as a spy for Xiang Kang, but we found out, that's why the former general killed him with his own hands."

"But what if the Qi army still refuses to agree?" Cao Jiu said with a sad face, "Just relying on Zheng Chang's one-sided words and killing Tian An, who has made great contributions to us, it is impossible for the Qi army to just let it go. "

"Let's try our best to win over Tian Du, who is currently the strongest." Old man Fan said helplessly, "Send someone to contact him immediately, tell him the reason why the former general executed Tian An, and ask him to take over Tian An's old department and replace the former general. The general promised to put him on the Qi throne and win him over, as long as he speaks for us and helps us appease the Qi army, at least we don’t have to worry about the Qi army turning against us.”

At this point in the matter, Cao Jiu had no choice but to nod his head, agreeing to Old Man Fan's plan, and arranged for people to go west overnight to contact Qi State General Tian Du, and try his best to win over Qi State's strongest warlord Tian All.Then, after dispatching the envoy, Cao Jiu asked Old Man Fan again: "Yafu, what should we do next regarding the attack on Xiang Kang's rebellious minister? Should we continue to march into Guanzhong?"

Old man Fan didn't answer immediately, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "As far as the current situation is concerned, there is almost no hope for us to win the Guanzhong. The ghosts, the hearts of the people are not in harmony, and if you insist on continuing to march into Guanzhong, not only is your chance of winning pitifully small, but you may also capsize in the gutter and be defeated by Xiang Kang in turn. Our best choice should be to decisively abandon the Western Expedition plan and withdraw Pengcheng regrouped, let the former general rest at ease, and he will find Xiang Kang to settle the score later."

It was Cao Jiu's turn to be silent, and after a long while, Cao Jiu said: "The former general couldn't possibly agree. With his temper, it must be harder than going to heaven to tell him to stop now."

"The former general was more stubborn, but it's not that he didn't listen to advice at all. As long as we persuade patiently and point out the pros and cons carefully, it may not be impossible to succeed."

Old man Fan has always been full of confidence in Xiang Yu, believing that Xiang Yu is by no means an idiot who can't listen to persuasion, then turned to Xiang Bo next to him and said, "Master Xiang, after the former general wakes up, I have to ask you to help us too." Persuade the former general more, you are his uncle and the current head of the Xiang clan, he should be able to listen to your words."

"I'm not sure about this." Master Xiang suddenly felt arrogant, and said with a sneer, "You two have the final say on military and political affairs. When did you ask me for an opinion? Why do you think of me now?"

"Okay." Old man Fan said with a sneer: "It doesn't matter if Master Xiang refuses to help, anyway, Xiang Kang's excuse for raising troops this time is to target you. If we lose the battle in the Western Expedition, Xiang Kang's rebellion will be powerful, and the king will take you." When giving Xiang Kang Nichen and the people of the world an explanation, don't blame us for not being able to help you."

Master Xiang didn't dare to say a word, Cao Jiu also knew his stern character, knew that if he kept his mouth shut, he didn't have the guts to intentionally drag himself and Old Man Fan back, so he ignored him, but asked Old Man Fan again: "Fan Zuoshi, even if we can persuade the former general, what will the princes outside the pass do? They are absolutely impossible to accompany us until the former general recovers from his injuries? Dismiss them on the spot and let them return to their home countries and continue to accept the orders of the six royal families. Commander, then if we want to gather them together in the future and make them obey the former general as they are now, there will be almost no possibility of this?"

This question is very difficult. Fortunately, old man Fan has thought about it before, and immediately answered: "Of course we can't dismiss them on the spot. The best way should be to enfeoff the princes immediately, and let the princes outside the pass who follow us be kings. It also allows them to continue to follow the former general in order to get the land and city that was entrusted to them in the future. After the former general recovers from his injuries, he can continue to lead the princes into the pass, crusade against other princes who refused to submit to us, and also for the former general to rule the world in the future Create opportunities!"

"Then how to divide the seal?"

Cao Jiu asked again, and old man Fan brought a map of the world, sketched some borders on the map, wrote the names of the enfeoffed princes, and wrote Xiang Yu's name on the territory of Chu State, and finally Then he said: "As for our current king, we can't be abolished, we can only continue to raise him up as a puppet, respect him as Emperor Chuyi, the Lord of the world, don't give him specific real power, just let him be like the emperor of Zhou, responsible Order and command the princes of the world to seek disobedience, so that no matter who the former general is sending troops to conquer, he can be famous as a teacher."

After thinking about the map for a long time, Cao Jiu reluctantly nodded when his stomach was growling with hunger, and said, "That's the only way to go, try to persuade the former general to do this."

The most arduous battle of the Chu army's top brass began, and after Xiang Yu finally woke up, Cao Jiu and old man Fan urged Xiang Yu to give up the western expedition for the time being, and retreat to Pengcheng to recover from his injuries, but Xiang Yu didn't listen at all. , no matter how weak his body was, he insisted on continuing to go west to find his cousin Xiang Kang who had repeatedly teased and deceived him to settle accounts. He also became furious at Cao Jiu and old man Fan, and because of this, his injuries worsened, and he passed out again.

Seeing that his nephew who was able to protect him was really unable to hold on anymore, Master Xiang had no choice but to swallow his anger and speak for his nephew Fan in order to protect himself. When Xiang Yu woke up again, he tried hard to persuade his nephew to stop this incident with tears. There is no certainty about the Western Expedition.Not to mention the result, Xiang Yu, who valued family affection more, was really shaken by Xiang Bo's persuasion. He stopped yelling and began to calm down and consider the consequences of his serious injury.

During this period, the impact of Xiang Yu's impulsive killing of Tian An also gradually emerged. Because he was dissatisfied with Xiang Yu's indiscriminate killing of heroes and feared repeating Tian An's mistakes, Zang Tu, Wei Bao and Tian Du, who stood in front of the Chu army, all made excuses and dared not The lone army marched lightly, allowing the troops under his command to station on the spot, and secretly colluded with each other, secretly preparing to turn against Xiang Yu.Cao Fan and the others knew this well, but they were helpless. At the same time, in order to prevent Xiang Yu from acting impulsively, they had to try their best to speak good words for them in front of Xiang Yu against their will.

Xiong Xin, the king of Chu who was far away in Pengcheng, finally jumped out to make trouble. When Xiang Yu was forced to recuperate outside Luoyang City, the envoy from Pengcheng came to contact Xiang Yu with Xiong Xin's decree and asked Xiang Yu to stop immediately. Conflict, wait for Xiongxin to send people to find out the truth before making a decision.Xiang Yu became even more furious when he heard that, regardless of his own weakness, he yelled in front of the Xiongxin Messenger, and said, "Wait until we find out the truth before making a decision? What else is there to investigate? Xiang Kang A rebellious minister claims to be the king without authorization in the pass, and he meets the army outside the pass with force, and the blind man who dominates the pass can see the heart of the rebellious minister, so what is there to investigate?"

Xiong Xin's envoy didn't dare to say anything, but Old Man Fan told him, "Go down and rest first, and forget what the former general said just now. If we hear anything, be careful with your head."

In fact, the Xiongxin envoy, who was receiving the salary of the Xiang family, obediently agreed, and hurriedly resigned. Then, after the envoy left, old man Fan said: "The former general, the king is deliberately helping Xiang Kang's rebellious minister, and the purpose is to give you Establishing an enemy will also give Xiang Kang Nichen time to stand firm in Guanzhong and have the strength to compete with you, so that he can balance between you and Xiang Kang, and secure his throne as King of Chu."

"Little Zhuzi!" Xiang Yu scolded with red eyes: "When I get back to Pengcheng, the first thing I will do is to abolish him!"

"Former general, you should be glad that your majesty doesn't know about your injury and the internal situation we are facing now." Old man Fan said calmly again: "If he knows that you are injured like this now, and the princes outside the pass are divided, surely I will encourage you to march into Guanzhong immediately, use Xiang Kangnichen's hand to get rid of you, and then take the opportunity to take back the military and political power of Chu State."

Xiang Yu became even more furious when he heard that, and immediately shouted that he would continue to march westward and fight Xiang Kang desperately, and let Xiong Xin see if Xiang Kang had the ability to kill him. But his decree is also just to make a step for you, we take the opportunity to stop this western expedition, it will not hurt your face, but also can win the reputation of loyalty, it just kills two birds with one stone."

Xiang Yu rolled his eyes, and when he was about to continue furious, Xiang Bo and Master Xiang fell to his knees in front of his sick bed, crying with snot and tears, "Nephew, just listen to a piece of advice, Uncle knows that you are brave and invincible, even with one hand you can kill a hundred Xiangkang little beasts, but now you are injured, you can neither ride a horse nor fight, Wei Bao and Tian Du's gang The man has a ulterior motive, and he may change the direction of the wind at any time. If you insist on continuing to fight in Guanzhong, you have no chance of winning at all! Only when your injuries are healed, and then lead the troops westward, can you be sure to deal with that little evil Beast! For our Xiang family, and for our Chu country, uncle begs you, retreat!"

Master Xiang's crying and pleading regardless of his face still had an effect. Xiang Yu, who was not yet extremely reckless, considered that his injury was too serious, and it would be difficult to preside over a strategic decisive battle with a scale of hundreds of thousands, so he finally nodded, very helpless Said: "Okay, listen to uncle, take this opportunity to go down the steps, and don't hit Guanzhong for the time being."

Seeing Xiang Yu, the brute finally turned around, Cao Jiu and old man Fan heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly took out the map of feudal enfeoffment that they had carefully planned and presented it to Xiang Yu, urging Xiang Yu to preside over the alliance in Luoyang and enfeoff China and Kyushu to willing The princes outside the pass who followed Xiang Yu also emptied the more and more obstructive Chu King Xiong Xin as Emperor Chu Yi, and completely turned him into a totem puppet in Xiang Yu's hands.After studying the map carefully, Xiang Yu suddenly asked, "Why didn't you give Peigong Liu Ji the title of king?"

"Create Pei Gong?" Old Man Fan and Cao Jiu were both taken aback, then Cao Jiu asked in confusion, "Why did the former general think of making Pei Gong king? This poor man took the lead in provoking the Hangu Pass war. We don't deal with him." , why do you want to crown him king?"

"It is because he took the lead in provoking the Hangu Pass war, so he must be crowned king!" Xiang Yu said viciously: "I want everyone in the world to know that as long as they are willing to help me deal with that traitor Xiang Kang, I will do it." I will definitely not treat him badly! And I also promised that as long as he can capture and kill Wang Lipifu, I will give him the title of king of Nanyang and Nanjun. Liu Ji has done this, and now I am fulfilling my promise. First, I keep my word The second is to let him go to Nanyang to threaten the Wuguan of Xiang Kang's rebels, so that Xiang Kang's rebels can't live in peace day and night, and take the opportunity to lure Xiang Kang's rebels to send troops to Nanyang, so that we have the opportunity to annihilate his army in Nanyang!"

"Nephew's great plan!" Uncle Xiang hurriedly complimented, "Liu Ji took the lead in going to war with Xiang Kang's little evil animal. The little evil animal hated him to the bone, and now we deliberately entrusted Liu Ji with Nanyang, which the little evil animal had already taken. , the little evil animal will definitely not let it go, as long as we send troops to seek revenge on Liu Ji, and leave the natural protection of Guanzhong, we will have a chance to wipe him out of the pass!"

Considering that Liu Laosan was deliberately divided into Nanyang, it is indeed very possible to lure Xiang Kang to send troops for revenge. It is much easier to lure Xiang Kang out to fight than directly attack Guanzhong. Cao Jiu and old man Fan did not object, just He suggested that Xiang Yu only confer the title of Nanyang County to Liu Laosan, and leave Nanjun and Qianzhong to other princes, Xiang Yu also agreed.

After finalizing the strategy of retreating and distributing the enfeoffments, Cao Jiu and Old Man Fan immediately led the Chu army to act according to the plan. At the same time, they went to order the princes outside the pass, ordering them to withdraw their troops and return to Luoyang to meet with Xiang Yu to discuss major plans. They also built an altar outside Luoyang city. , ready to offer sacrifices to heaven.Because of Xiang Yu's serious injury, the princes outside the pass had long since lost interest in entering the pass, and when they heard that Xiang Yu was going to divide the spoils in advance, they naturally couldn't wait to turn around and return to Luoyang, eager to get a share of the spoils at the spoils sharing meeting.

A few days later, after Sima Ang and Liu Laosan led their troops back to Luoyang, the spoils distribution meeting officially began. In front of the princes outside the pass, Xiang Yu first braced his sick body to worship the heaven and the earth, and then counted the battles of the princes outside the pass in the anti-Qin war. After all kinds of meritorious service, he took out the spoils distribution map and decided to divide the Kyushu of China into sixteen countries. He also respected the King of Chu, Xiong Xin, as the Emperor of Chu Yi, and ordered the princes like the Son of Zhou.

Xiang Yu's entrustment is roughly as follows: Xiang Yu himself proclaimed himself the Overlord of Western Chu, and obtained most of the old lands of Chu, including Jiangdong; he proclaimed Zhao General Sima Ang the King of Henan, and led the three counties of Sanchuan, Hanoi, and Handan; The king of Han took control of the land of Yingchuan; Wei Bao was made king of the Western Wei Dynasty and took charge of the two counties of Hedong and Shangdang; Sima Xin was made king of Jin and took control of a county in Taiyuan; Yi was made king of Zhai, who led the land of Shangjun; Liu Laosan was made the king of Nanyang, who took control of Nanyang County; Lead the land of Hanzhong and Bashu.

In addition, Wu Rui, a Jiangnan warlord who was not involved in the Central Plains War, in order to win him over for his own use, Xiang Yu also made him the King of Hengshan and took control of Hengshan County.

The innocent country of Yan was quite miserable, and was divided into two by Xiang Yu. Zang Tu named the king of Yan and led Guangyang, Yuyang and Sangu; Gu's Qi State was also miserable, and it was also divided into two by Xiang Yu, allowing Tian Du who followed Xiang Yu to obtain most of the rich land of Qi State. The current Qi Wang Tian City was renamed King Jiaodong, and moved to the Shandong Peninsula to blow. Cool sea breeze.

The Zhao State was unlucky, because Zhang Ao made troubles and ruined the plan of the coalition of princes to enter Guanzhong. Not only were Handan and Daijun granted to others by Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu also refused to recognize Zhao Xie's throne for the time being, and asked Zhao Xie to hand over Zhang Er and Zhang Ao first. Father and son, and then formally canonize him as the king of Zhao, otherwise Xiang Yu will have to establish another king of Zhao, and he will not even give Zhao Xie the remaining land of Zhao State.

Of course, compared with Xiang Kang, Zhao Xie was undoubtedly much luckier. Xiang Yu, who hated and envied his cousin, not only did not give Xiang Kang the title of king, but also took out the Guanzhong Plain that Xiang Kang currently occupies as bait, and promised Whoever can take Xiang Kang's head will divide the fertile land in Guanzhong to whoever will be the territory, so as to encourage the princes of the world to continue to unite under Xiang Yu's banner, enter Guanzhong in the future, and cut off Xiang Kang, a rebellious minister!

By the way, Xiang Yu made the decision about Xiang Kang after careful discussions with old man Fan, Cao Jiu and other cronies, and quietly left a way out, that is, when Xiang Kangfu surrendered softly, he officially confiscated the land in Guanzhong. Xiang Kang is easy to deal with.

After hearing Xiang Yu's entrustment, only Sima Ang, who could directly get the land and city, was ecstatic and grateful to Xiang Yu.The other princes and kings, including Liu Laosan, were all forced to be happy, worried in their hearts, knowing that they would have to fight a lot of battles if they wanted to get Xiang Yu's enfeoffed land, but there was no way, the coalition forces of the princes actually controlled There is only so little land, no matter how it is sealed off, someone will suffer. In order to get military help and support, everyone still thanked Xiang Yu against their will, swore their blood in front of the enfeoffment platform, vowed to help each other, and crusaded against the princes outside the pass who refused to obey the enfeoffment , recognized Xiang Yu's enfeoffment of China's Kyushu.He also vowed to obey the orders of Emperor Chu Yi in the future, unite under the banner of the Overlord of Western Chu, and crusade against the rebellious officials and princes who did not respect the king's order-mainly targeting Xiang Kang, who is almost a public enemy of the world.

Then, when it was already difficult to maintain, the coalition of princes also officially disbanded, and the princes outside the pass led their troops to their fiefs to establish a country. Zhang Han, Sima Xin, and Dong Yi took the soldiers of the Qin army to collect weapons and went north to give Xiang Kang's northern line added to the chaos; the three generals of the Chu army Liu Laosan, Ying Bu and Chai Wu who won the throne also led their troops south to the south line of the Young Marshal's Army to stir up wind and rain, making Xiang Kang unsafe day and night. Also wait for the opportunity to seize the land of Hanzhong Bashu that Xiang Kang has not had time to digest.Xiang Yu led the main force of the Chu army back to Pengcheng to recuperate, preparing to make a comeback after regrouping.

It is worth mentioning that, in order to disgust Xiang Kang, Xiang Yu not only dispatched [-] troops from the main force of the Chu army to Liu Laosan, but also strengthened Liu Laosan's already severely weakened troops, so that Liu Laosan could fight against Xiang Kang. pose a greater threat.At the same time, Han Xin also resigned from his position as a doctor in the Chu army, and volunteered to join Liu Laosan's army. Liu Laosan also discovered Han Xin's extraordinaryness long ago, not only accepted Han Xin without hesitation, but also made Han Envelope a general. , Let him participate in planning his own military affairs.

The news of Xiang Yu's division of filth quickly spread to Guanzhong. When he learned that Xiang Yu had indiscriminately assigned the old land of Han to Shen Yang, General Zhao, Zhang Liang's face was as ugly as it could be.But Xiang Kang laughed loudly and said: "As expected, my elder brother only has such a level. If we divide the princes of the world like this, we don't need to wait for us to do it. In three to five months at most, the princes outside the customs can beat people's brains into pigs' brains." ! If you want to unite and fight against me again, don't even think about dreaming of such a dream!"

After laughing, Xiang Kang immediately patted Zhang Liang on the shoulder and comforted him: "Mr. Zifang, don't worry, I promised to help you restore Korea, so I won't break my promise. Give me some time, and wait for me to relax." After this breath, I will definitely send troops to help King Han regain the old land."

Knowing that Xiang Kang's words are true, and knowing that Xiang Kang will definitely not abandon Han Cheng who is still valuable in order to divide the princes outside the pass, Zhang Liang quickly thanked him, and said: "General You, the former general did this, and I hope Chu There must be no hope for the king to make you king. In order to appease the soldiers under your command, and to be able to fight against the princes outside the customs in the future, it is best for you to establish yourself as king as soon as possible and clarify your banner."

"This matter cannot be delayed." Xiang Kang nodded and said: "After returning to Xianyang, I will hold the enthronement ceremony immediately, and give our soldiers an explanation first."

"Then what is General You going to use as the country's name?" Chen Ping asked curiously, and then said: "It is best not to use the country's name of Qin, first, it will be too disgusting to the people outside the Guanzhong, and second, it will easily make the people in Guanzhong miss their homeland. , will not easily agree with you, the new Qin King who has no blood of Qin King, and will give the Qin royal family an excuse to make trouble."

"Of course the title Qin can no longer be used." Xiang Kang smiled slightly, then suddenly raised his voice, and said firmly: "Han! Take Han as the title of the country! I call myself King of Han!"

(End of this chapter)