Destiny Only Han

Chapter 148
Guanzhong, Xianyang City.

The fire that soared to the sky in the past has been extinguished, and the magnificent palace, which cost so much people's fat and people's anointing, and how many skilled craftsmen devoted their lives to it, now only remains a pile of broken bricks and tiles.

Under the hot summer wind, white bones can be seen from time to time among the rubble and wild grass.

However, on the outskirts of Xianyang City, many temporary shacks can already be seen.

These are the new homes rebuilt by those Qin people who could not leave their homeland.

At this moment, they went out to the ruins as usual, looking for all the resources that could be used by them.

The Sri Lankan people have passed away, and the prosperity has come to an end. No matter how much unwillingness and resentment there is, they can only be buried in their hearts. In any case, life continues.

Suddenly, in the north of Xianyang City, there was a lot of smoke and dust, and it seemed that thousands of troops were marching fast.

They froze, looked at each other, and shivered. A few days ago, Sima Bao, the internal historian appointed by Sima Xin, and Zhao Ben, who was under Zhang Han's command, led the army passing by here and hurried north.

Of course, although Zhao Ben was in a hurry, he did not forget to take the opportunity to loot...

Now, will this situation repeat itself?

Among the crowd, someone wailed loudly: "God, what will we do to let us go..."

They began to regret that they would have known that when Liu Bang, the King of Han, entered Shu that day, they would have gone with him. If so, maybe they would not have suffered such a tragic fate now!
It's just that they haven't been wailing for long, and some people with better eyes started dancing and crying and laughing.

"Crazy, they must be crazy..."

The wailing people were stunned, but more and more grief came from it.

But after a while, they also started singing and dancing along with crying and laughing.

On the platform in the distance, battle flags as red as blood fluttered in the wind.

This is the flag of the Han army, this is the flag of the King of Han.

Their king is back!

Under the hunting flag, Liu Bang stood on the car, holding the flagpole in his hand, listening to the voice of the king calling in the distance, and his heart was full of pride.

Alas, a man should be like this!

But when he saw the broken bricks and tiles in the distance, his good mood disappeared, and he began to use Peisi dialect, with Xiang Yu as the center and the [-]th generation as the range, and greeted the female relatives who were related to Xiang Yu in turn.

Cao Shen on the side also shook his head and sighed:

"In my opinion, let's change the name of Xianyang City to save it from sounding sad...Look, the Li Palace whose beams were not burned down seems to be the one I liked very much back then..."

Liu Bang glanced back at him: "It's not called Xianyang City, what is it called?"

Cao Shen pointed to the people who were reveling in the distance: "Look, they have started building the city again on top of the ruins, why not change the name of Xianyang City to New City."

Liu Bang thought for a while and exclaimed: "Good idea! A brand new city, a brand new country!"

Cao Shen suddenly smiled narrowly: "Then simply, change the character '汉' on the flag to the word 'New' as well, the new country, the new king, the new atmosphere..."

"Go!" Liu Bang pushed him with his shoulder and laughed loudly.

Before he knew it, the relationship between him and Cao Shen became a little better, um, just a little better.

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Guanzhong, Lantian County.

On the road leading to Wuguan, the newly built tents in Lu Ze's camp sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Lu Ze has been here for a long time. It's not because he doesn't want to continue to attack south, but after a short fight with Sima Xin's army, he found that his side suffered too many casualties, so he turned from attack to defense, and couldn't hold out. .

This is mainly due to the gap in the quality of soldiers.

The people Sima Xin sent to defend Lantian were veterans who had fought with him for many years. The fighting strength of these people was unmatched by the county guards under Lu Ze.

Sima Xin's army on the opposite side also couldn't hold out.

After all, when Lu Ze's army covered the Qinling Mountains, their spies couldn't move an inch, and they couldn't know how many troops were behind Lu Ze.

In case the enemy is lured to go deep, it is not good to gather and annihilate them.

What's more, they got the order to stick to Lantian and not let Lu Ze's soldiers enter the pass. As for going out of the city to fight, they were no longer under the order.

At noon that day, three or four gray pigeons flew across the blue sky like lightning, and landed precisely outside Lu Ze's handsome tent.

Lu Shizhi rushed out, used the broken rice in his pocket to trick the pigeons into his hands, and took off the iron rings on their feet.

In the handsome tent, Lu Ze took the cloth strip and raised his eyebrows.

"Huh? Sister-in-law and the others are moving so fast, they have already reached the north of Xianyang City..."

Lu Shizhi snatched it: "Really? They are planning to attack Lantian at dawn tomorrow, and they want us to harass the enemy tonight..."

Lu Ze squinted his eyes, he didn't care about Lu Shizhi's big or small, he was going to settle accounts after the fall.

Unknowingly, Lu Shizhi put down the cloth strip in his hand, sighed and said, "Long time no see, it's a pity that little guy didn't come with brother-in-law..."

Lu Ze smiled and said, "I remember when you were in Wan County, didn't you order Liu Ying not to come close to you?"

Lu Shizhi rolled his eyes: "One moment and another moment! Besides, you don't want Liu Ying and Liu Le, sister?"

Lu Ze smiled and said nothing, as the eldest brother, no matter how much he missed him, he would not show it easily.

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To the south of the Wei River, Shanglin Garden and Changchi.

This is a huge artificial lake [-] miles from east to west and [-] miles from north to south. Liu Bang led the [-] main Han army and stationed by the lake for repairs, preparing to spend the hottest time of the day.

However, even though it was dog days and the heat was scorching hot, there was a cool breeze by the lake, which made the soldiers of the Han army feel tired after marching for half a day. If it weren't for the strict military orders, they would have jumped into the lake to play immediately.

In the shogunate of the Chinese army, Cao Shen, Fan Kuai and Xia Houying sat around Liu Bang.

Han Xin stayed in Haoren to train the army, and sent Zhou Bo, Li Shang and others to attack various parts of the Yong Kingdom, so in the battle of Lantian, they could only rely on themselves.

However, before Liu Bang came, he deliberately selected some soldiers who surrendered in Rang Township that day. These people were recruited by Sima Xin temporarily, but they had to obey Sima Xin's orders due to the situation.

In this way, with these surrendered soldiers who are familiar with the Serbian army, when they launch a surprise attack at dawn, they can get as close as possible to the enemy troops on the front line of Lantian.

As twilight gradually fell, Liu Bang and others in the handsome tent also gradually formulated a detailed plan. They repeated the deduction again and found that it was indeed foolproof.

In fact, if they followed their usual habits, how could they make such a move.

Usually it is simply to look at the enemy's layout, and then Cao Shen and Zhou Bo command the left and right armies respectively, and Liu Bang is in the middle army, commanding Fan Kui to charge, simple and rude!
But it’s different now. Ever since Han Xin had strategized and won a few times, not only them, but almost all the generals in the Han army felt that the former swarming style of fighting was really overreaching...

Therefore, in order to prove themselves, there is no need for others to say more in many cases. Cao Shen Zhou Bo and the others will repeatedly send out scouts to spy on information like Han Xin, and try to formulate a reliable battle plan.

The so-called near vermilion is red, which is probably the case.

It's just that when the hungry Liu Bang and the others started to eat, Chen Xi, who was sent out to investigate, ran in hurriedly, with a weird look on his face.

Liu Bang sucked the noodles and raised his head: "What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost?"

Chen Xi said hesitantly, "On the way back to the camp, I saw the envoy of the Lantian guard, and he is outside the tent right now..."

"puff……"

Fan Kui spat out a mouthful of noodles, and a thought came to his mind that he was somewhat incapable of accepting it.

Cao Can who was on the side also asked in a daze: "He didn't come to negotiate a peace, did he..."

Chen Xi nodded, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

If you want to surrender, you should have said it earlier. He led the scouts in the army and ran around Lantian a few times under the sun, his face was almost bald...

Liu Bang put down the bowl as big as his face in his hand, grinned and said, "This is a good thing, why do you have such expressions?"

Cao Shen rolled his eyes wildly, and cursed in his heart: What a fart, Nai Gong's hair turned gray in order to make an attack plan!

Liu Bang thought for a while and wiped off the food residue on his face: "Let him in!"

After a while, the envoy walked in, clasped his hands together and worshiped.

Liu Bang acted like a respectful corporal: "Hurry up, give me a seat."

After the envoy sat down and thanked him again, he immediately asked: "I don't know what you can teach me when you come here, sir?"

The envoy clasped his hands and said, "I can't talk about teaching, but it is said in the "Book" that you don't have any anger to be stubborn, and you don't have to be prepared for a man. There must be tolerance, and it will help. Tolerance, virtue is great..."

He babbled for a long time, only to hear Fan Kui's eyes stare, and finally couldn't help but ask:
"You just said what are you doing here?"

The messenger was stunned for a moment, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He continued without changing his expression: "As long as the Han army promises not to harm our lives, our army is willing to surrender to the Han army."

Liu Bang asked: "Sir, do you represent the Lantian garrison, or Sima Xin, king of Sai?"

He wanted to ask clearly where the other party came from, so as to estimate what kind of benefits should be given to the other party.

The envoy smiled wryly: "Of course it is the Lantian garrison."

Liu Bang asked: "How many defenders are there?"

The envoy replied: "Our army is divided into two generals, each leading [-] troops, and stationed on the line from Lantian to Bashui."

Liu Bang said with a smile:

"I promised before that anyone who leads 1 people, or surrenders a county, will be made a Marquis of [-] households! It seems that now is the time to fulfill the promise..."

The envoy bowed to the ground and said, "Thank you, my king!"

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After nightfall, Liu Bang bid farewell to the envoys who were eager to report back. Liu Bang moved his body and walked slowly back to the commander's tent.

Although the whole army maintains combat readiness, it will go to Lantian early tomorrow morning to accept the surrender.

It's just that when he fell asleep, he vaguely felt that he seemed to have missed a very important thing...

(End of this chapter)