Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 346 Completely Reversed Situation

I'm not afraid that the hooligans know martial arts, but I'm afraid that the hooligans are educated. Xiang Yu probably had a thousand nightmares and would never dream that Li Shiqi, the envoy of the Han army that he shamelessly detained on the Sanchuan battlefield, would become one of his extremely terrifying And dangerous enemies, their horror and danger, even to a large extent, far surpassed Peng Yue, who was born at odds with Xiang Yu, Feng Zhong, the shameless traitor of the Western Chu Army, and Feng Zhong, who has been a traitor since the beginning. The younger generation who worshiped Xiang Kang as an idol was angry.

At the very beginning, the Western Chu army, which had already become a shackle, proposed to exchange Xiang Kang's wife and children for the Han army to let the Han army pass by. Put Xiang Kang's wife and children in front of the battle as a shield, forcing the Han army to give way, but he didn't dare to refuse outright. In the end, Li Shiqi, who had just been released from prison, discovered a huge loophole in the negotiation conditions of the Western Chu army, and offered a plan to let Peng Yue He set up a plan to rescue Xiang Kang's wife and children, and successfully made most of the Western Chu officials surrender to the Han army, smashing the political operation center behind the Western Chu army in one fell swoop.

Li Shiqi's purpose was not limited to this. After the trick was successful, Li Shiqi ignored the fact that he was still very weak just after he came out of the prison, so he used the opportunity of having dinner together to say to Peng Yue and Feng Zhong: "General Peng, General Feng! , taking advantage of the opportunity we have now, we might as well support a new king of Chu in Pengcheng."

With a puff, Feng Zhong, who is mediocre in politics, spit out a mouthful of rice and almost choked it into his trachea. He coughed and said in surprise, "Old Mr. Li, what are you talking about, to support a new King of Chu? Are you kidding me? No chance For no reason, why do we support a new King of Chu?"

"Of course I'm not joking." Li Shiqi said solemnly, "We have re-established a king of Chu, and Chu will immediately become one country and two masters. It's hard to think about it without complete chaos. Let the situation on the battlefield in the Central Plains become more favorable to our King of Han. Xiang Yu must immediately send out heavy troops and return to the rear to suppress the rebellion, and even lead his army back to Pengcheng to stabilize the situation. It can also create a counterattack opportunity for the King of Han, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Western Chu army to divide or withdraw completely, and completely reverse the passive situation of the King of Han on the Xingyang battlefield."

"Besides, if we re-appoint a king of Chu, we can immediately receive three effects." Li Shiqi added: "First, we rebuild the royal court of Chu, and we can legally and reasonably buy people's hearts in Chu. , to control the soldiers and civilians of Chu; second, we can let the new king of Chu declare that Xiang Yu, the puppet king of Western Chu, is a rebel, and call on the soldiers and civilians of Chu to attack him, so that Xiang Yu will be at a moral disadvantage; third, it can be justified Order the counties and counties of Chu, weaken Xiang Yu's control over Chu, and isolate him even more."

"These three points are of great benefit to our Han King." Li Shiqi continued: "And Jing Jia, who has surrendered to us, is still a descendant of the orthodox Chu royal family, and is far more qualified to inherit the Chu throne than Xiang Yu. , if we support him as the King of Chu, it will definitely be easier to win the support of the military and civilians in Chu. In addition, most of the officials in Western Chu have surrendered to us. We use them as the team to rebuild the court of Chu, and it will be easier to win the local counties of Chu. The county supports some."

Feng Zhong's political ability is indeed mediocre. Although he felt reasonable after hearing Li Shiqi's analysis, he was still a little worried. He hurriedly asked: "Then what should we do if the King of Han refuses to agree? We supported the King of Chu without his consent." , this seems to be suspected of presumptuousness?"

"The King of Han is a smart man, so he won't fail to understand that we are doing this for his own sake." Li Shiqi replied, "We just need to ask the new King of Chu to submit a petition to our King of Han immediately after we support the new King of Chu." Express your submission and respect our King of Han, and the King of Han will certainly not say anything more."

Feng Zhong was still a little timid, he didn't dare to make such an important decision without Xiang Kang's consent, so he could only turn his attention to Peng Yue, but Peng Yue's political ability was much stronger than Feng Zhong's, so he just thought for a moment and asked : "Mr. Li, what if the Xichu bandit army strikes back and we can't resist?"

"If we don't support a new king of Chu, are we sure we can stop the massive counterattack of the Western Chu bandits?" Li Shiqi asked with a smile, and said, "Since we are not sure that we can stop it, then we will give priority to Chu. The more chaos the ground makes, the better. When the Xichu bandit army comes back, we will stop it if we can, and if we can't stop it, we will immediately retreat with the army under the banner of moving the capital, leaving a mess for Xiang Yu to go to. Just clean up"

Peng Yue weighed again and again, but still nodded, and said: "It makes sense, anyway, with our strength, we will definitely not be able to stop the Xichu bandit army from attacking aggressively. After completely messing up Chu, we can support a new King of Chu, but we must hold the military power firmly in our hands, and we must never hand it over to those Western Chu officials who surrendered."

"Of course." Li Shiqi replied with a smile: "We have established a new queen of Chu, so I invite you, General Peng Yue, to be the general of the new state of Chu and Shangzhu state, and General Feng Zhong to be the grand master of the new state of Chu." Sima, the two of you will be in charge of the military power of the Chu State, and the major affairs of state affairs will be jointly decided by the two of you."

Peng Yue's eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded in agreement, but Feng Zhong was still timid, he hesitated and said: "I'd better get rid of it, there are too many young commanders and old men in my army, and they are all looking forward to returning to the Hanwang tent. I have also promised to take them back to the tent of the King of Han. If General Peng doesn’t mind, please let my army continue to fight under the banner of the Han army, and you will be in charge of Chu’s military power and government affairs alone. "

After saying that, Feng Zhong quickly added, "Of course, I will continue to obey your orders, General Peng, before joining forces with our King of Han."

Seeing Feng Zhong's insistence, Peng Yue didn't force it, so Peng Yue and Li Shiqi quickly made up their minds, and the next day they pushed Jing Jia, the former clan of Chu State, to the throne of Chu State, and lifted the Chu State again. The banner, all the officials of Western Chu were mentally prepared for this, of course no one stood up and said no, Peng Yue proclaimed himself the General of Chu State and Shangzhu State, and actually took charge of the military and political power of the new Chu State. Immediately, all of them were changed to the banner of Chu State, and transformed into the status of servants of the Han army.

Then, at the request of Peng Yue, Li Shiqi and others, after Jing Jia, who finally got his wish, became king hastily, the first edict issued was to profess his minister to Xiang Kang, expressing his acceptance of Xiang Kang's command; the second edict It denounced Xiang Yu's crime of killing Xiong Xin, Emperor Yi of Chu, formally designated Xiang Yu as a rebellious minister, and called on the army and people of Chu to crusade; the third edict was issued together with the second edict, requiring the counties of Chu to fight against Chu The banner was changed to accept the edicts and decrees of the Jingchu royal court, and at the same time stop all supply of money, food and military supplies to the Western Chu army.

In addition, of course, Peng Yue had to take advantage of the large population of Pengcheng and its surrounding areas to recruit troops desperately, equip the recruits with weapons left by the Western Chu court, and desperately expand the strength of his army. He also quickly expanded his army to three. Thousands of giants.

The fact that Peng Yue, Li Shiqi and others re-established a new king of Chu, of course, caused chaos in the rear of Western Chu, causing the counties and counties of Western Chu to not know whose orders to obey, and indeed some Western Chu The local counties and counties of Chu saw the wind and turned the rudder, and immediately abandoned the banner of Western Chu and re-launched the banner of Chu. Without the organization and recruitment of the Western Chu army, the food and grass transfer work of the Western Chu army was completely paralyzed, and there was no way to provide an endless supply of food, grass and military supplies for the main force of the Western Chu army.

But Peng Yue and Li Shiqi's doing so also thoroughly stabbed the hornet's nest. They had just received the news that Pengcheng had fallen and that Peng Yue's army had set up a new king of Chu. Ze battlefield went south in a big way, and came to Pengcheng aggressively to seek Peng Yue's army to settle accounts.At the same time, Xiang Ta Xiang Sheng also desperately contacted local officials who were still loyal to Xiang Yu in various parts of Western Chu, and organized an army to prepare for a counterattack.

The one who reacted most violently was of course Xiang Yu himself. When he received the bad news from Pengcheng, Xiang Yu was drinking in the barracks. As a result, before the messenger who came from the rear had time to finish his sentence, the case in front of Xiang Yu flew into the air. In the middle of the air, and then, Xiang Yu's roar directly numb the ears of everyone present, "Peng Yue! Feng Zhong! If this king doesn't smash your corpses into thousands of pieces, you will be crushed! This king swears that he will not be human—— ——!”

Roaring, the lingering anger of Xiang Yu also pulled out the sword in his waist, and swung it around in the Chinese army tent, chopping everything he saw to pieces, scaring the guards and officials in the tent to roll and crawl. He escaped from the Chinese army's tent, afraid that he would be too slow to escape, and Xiang Yu would take it as a punching bag and chop it into mincemeat on the spot!

The sad news of Pengcheng also stunned the entire decision-making level of the Western Chu Army. Knowing that Pengcheng fell and Peng Yue and others supported Jing Jia as King of Chu, the civil and military forces of Western Chu were struck by lightning, and some people even said in their hearts: " Could it be that our Xichu is going to be finished?"

Old man Fan was relatively calm, forcing himself to calm down and think for a while, then old man Fan immediately said: "My lord, the only way we can do this now is that we have no other choice but to withdraw from the Xingyang battlefield as soon as possible and free up our hands to calm down the situation. There is a rebellion in the rear, after we have stabilized the situation in the rear, we will then consider how to attack and destroy the Han thieves."

"The whole army must not retreat!" Kuai Che said quickly: "If we all withdraw our troops and return to the country to suppress the rebellion, Xiang Kang's rebels will definitely take the opportunity to counterattack in an all-round way. At that time, we don't have to be afraid of their pursuit. We can't go back to Pengcheng with all our strength, that's enough to make us uncomfortable."

"Listen to the old man!" Old man Fan interrupted Kuaiche rudely, and said angrily: "Of course we can't all withdraw to Pengcheng, we can only bring our main force back to Puyang first, and then divide the army into two Half of the army stayed in Puyang, and did not give the Han bandits the opportunity to invade the hinterland of our Western Chu. Half of the army returned to Pengcheng to suppress the rebellion. After the rebellion in our rear was quelled, they returned to Puyang to join our rear army. You can win the chance to fight against the traitors."

"A great strategy." Kuai Che changed his words and praised: "Leave half of the army to garrison Puyang, and choke the throat of the Han bandits entering the hinterland of our Western Chu from Chidao. This will not only allow the other half of our army to return to the country to suppress the rebellion, but also continue. Threatening Sanchuan Aocang will prevent the Han thieves from marching eastward from Dang County. In addition, we can also ensure contact with the northern front army and keep abreast of the development of the northern front.”

Of course, Kuai Che’s praise cannot be counted. Everything must be decided by Xiang Yu. As a result, after careful consideration for a while, Xiang Yu quickly said: "Why do we have to withdraw to Puyang? Why can't half of our army be stationed in Xingyang directly?" On the battlefield, directly contain the main force of the Han thieves?"

"Your Majesty, unless you personally stay on the Xingyang battlefield, none of our generals can be an opponent of Xiang Kang's traitor." Old man Fan replied helplessly, and said: "And we must withdraw to Puyang to re-fortify. Because our Hanoi partial division has been completely annihilated, and Zhao Guoyou's army was restrained by the Han bandit division in Hengshan County. The Hanoi division of the Han bandit has no worries. If we can't resist, then our main force in Western Chu will be completely cut into two by the Han bandits."

History has indeed undergone great changes. In history, because there is no old man Fan to guide the maze, and Master Xiang Bo is too powerful, giving Xiang Yu bad ideas every day. Disregarding the tail, he left the frontline army and returned directly to the rear to suppress the rebellion, giving Liu Laosan the opportunity to counterattack aggressively.The current situation is completely different. One is that he is very aware of how vicious and cunning his scumbag cousin is, and the other is that Master Xiang, who has no real power, shut his mouth again and did not jump out to help. Xiang Yu hesitated again and again, but reluctantly nodded and said : "Then let's do this, first withdraw to Puyang and re-fortify."

Old Man Fan and Kuai Che heaved a sigh of relief together, and then Old Man Fan hurriedly said: "My lord, when we retreat, I must ask you to lead the army in the rear to deter the rebel army. Only then will our main force be able to safely withdraw to Puyang and re-arm."

Of course Xiang Yu liked to hear such words, and immediately agreed, and the decision-makers of the Western Chu Army hurriedly discussed the plan to withdraw troops, and sent Huan Chu to lead an army to cross the gap that day, set up a position to protect the ferry, and launched a full-scale crossing of the river the next day Xiang Yu personally led the [-] elite troops of the Western Chu Army to the rear. It was only after the troops and all kinds of military supplies were transported across the river that Xiang Yu finally crossed the river and led the main force of the Western Chu Army along the river. Slowly retreat to the Puyang battlefield.

Just as old man Fan expected, because Xiang Yu personally led the army behind the palace to cover the retreat of the whole army, and was afraid of the fierceness and bravery of his overlord cousin, Xiang Kang did not dare to send an army to chase after him—don't blame Xiang Kang for being cowardly. I really don't have any confidence that I can beat the main force of the Western Chu Army.Coupled with the road blockage, we have not had time to receive news from Pengcheng. I am afraid that this is a trick of the Western Chu army to lure snakes out of the cave. Of course, Xiang Kang is even more afraid to play big tricks. The reason why the main force of the Chu army broke through the siege and withdrew was to grasp the movement of the Western Chu army and patiently wait for new changes in the enemy's situation.

Xiang Kang's helpless move also gave the Western Chu Army a chance to withdraw to Puyang and redeploy its defenses. Six days later, the main force of the Western Chu Army, which currently has a strength of about 22, successfully retreated to the Puyang area. More than 12 people from the Chu army finally joined forces at one place, and then voluntarily gave up the Baima Ferry far away from Puyang, and jointly withdrew to Puyang. Then Xiang Yu held a meeting without stopping, announcing that Cao Jiu, whom he trusted most in military affairs, would lead the army 12 Wan was stationed in Puyang and personally led another [-] troops back to Pengcheng to suppress the rebellion.

"Cao Sima, please remember." Xiang Yu warned worriedly: "After this king leaves, if the Han bandit army invades in large numbers, you can't take the risk of sending troops to a decisive battle anyway. There is no way to bypass Puyang and go east. Our current food and grass are enough for you for two months, at most one month. I will definitely put down the rebellion and bring the army back to join you. At that time, we will have nothing to fear !"

"Also." Xiang Yu quickly added: "If my traitor brother leads the main force of the Han rebels from Dang County to enter the hinterland of Western Chu, you must confirm that he has gone far before you can take the opportunity to attack Sanchuan Aocang. Don't be greedy for meritorious deeds, and fall into the trick of the traitors. My cousin who is a traitor is too cunning, you are no match for him. As for him sending some troops into the hinterland of our Dang County, don't bother him, I will send troops tidy."

Cao Jiu hurriedly clasped his fists in his arms and promised, vowing to remember Xiang Yu's instructions, but old man Fan still refused to let go, and offered to ask Ying, "Your Majesty, let the old minister stay to assist Cao Sima. The old minister is familiar with Xiang Kang's traitorous nature, so he doesn't care about it." No matter what tricks you play, the old minister is sure to deal with it."

Xiang Yu is a little moved, but there are too few talents around Xiang Yu who are proficient in both military and government affairs. Returning to Pengcheng to counter the rebellion will definitely involve a series of internal affairs issues such as appeasing the people and rebuilding the bureaucracy, so Xiang Yu shook his head , Said: "Yafu, you have to go back with me. There are still a lot of things in Pengcheng that I can't do without you. You are indispensable to me."

Old man Fan nodded helplessly, but said, "Your Majesty, how about leaving Dr. Kuai Che Kuai to Cao Sima? Dr. Kuai is a fine person and has a lot of opinions in seeing things. He will definitely be of great help to Cao Sima."

Xiang Yu didn't refuse this time, and immediately agreed, and old man Fan turned to Cao Jiu and said: "Cao Sima, when you encounter problems, you should discuss with Dr. Kuai more often, and Henan Situ Li Zuoche is also a wise man who can make good decisions. , If you have any problems, you might as well listen to his opinion."

Cao Jiu agreed with a smile, but he muttered in his heart: "Ya Fu, it's fine if the king looks down on me, why are you so worried about me? When something happens, you want me to listen to the opinion of the yellow-haired boy Kuai Che? And that Li Zuoche, if he had real skills, how could the Henan army be completely wiped out by the Han bandits, and even lose all the land and cities?"

On Xiang Kang's side, after confirming that Xiang Yu had left Puyang with an army of 12, Xiang Kang finally received the urgent report sent by Peng Yue along the road of Dang County, and the letter of credence sent by the new king of Chu, Jing Jia. Knowing the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in Pengcheng.Needless to say, none of the civil and military forces of the Han army cheered and celebrated the miracle created by the joint efforts of Peng Yuejun and Feng Zhongjun. Even Zhang Liang was so excited that Peng Yuejun and Feng Zhongjun rescued his old master Han Cheng. , crying for the first time in front of Xiang Kang and others.

Of course, Xiang Kang was also excited, but after the excitement, Xiang Kang's expression was unexpectedly a little hostile. Chen Ping was the roundworm in Xiang Kang's stomach. Guessing that Xiang Kang was not particularly happy, he took the opportunity to whisper to Xiang Kang persuaded: "Your Majesty, it is indeed a bit excessive for Peng Yue and the others to support Jing Jia as the new King of Chu without your consent, but in terms of the effect of disrupting the enemy, their approach is also the most correct way, Your Majesty. Don’t overthink it.”

Xiang Kang nodded reluctantly, and also persuaded himself in his heart: "Don't be too harsh and demanding, people of this era have the limitations of this era after all, how can they know the dangerous consequences of the enfeoffment system? Peng Yue was not brought out by me. It’s not surprising that the old man is a bit selfish, but generally speaking, his merits outweigh his demerits, at worst he is like Liu Laosan, who first unifies the world, and then slowly puts down the rebellion.”

At this time, the civil and military officers of the Han army couldn't wait to ask: "Your Majesty, what should we do next? Shall we send troops to Puyang immediately and wipe out the Western Chu bandit army in Puyang first?"

"Is there any need to ask?" Xiang Kang grinned and said, "Such a good opportunity is in front of us. If we don't seize it quickly, wouldn't we be too sorry for the Chinese people who are anxious to live a peaceful life? Send troops immediately, Go east to Puyang!"

(End of this chapter)