Qiang Qin

Updated: 2010-09-25

As soon as Liu Bang and his fifty soldiers arrived at Xiang Yu's residence, which was the original Surabaya City Prefect's Mansion, they were stunned by the sight in front of them.I saw that the three floors outside the Taishou's mansion were full of tiger and cardinal men in armor and holding weapons. There were no less than 3000 people in total.Each of them was full of energy and full of murderous aura. When Liu Bang and the others stood in front of them, they could feel the bloody aura rushing towards their faces.At this moment, even Xiao He couldn't guess how Xiang Yu was going to deal with them. If it was just an ordinary banquet, would it be necessary to send so many soldiers to stand outside the mansion?Just when the two were startled, a man dressed as a housekeeper happened to come out, saw the two hurriedly stepped forward and asked them if they were Liu Bang and his party, and after getting a positive answer, he said: "My general is already waiting in the hall. It's been a long time, you two, follow me into the mansion." Then he led the way.Liu Bang and Xiao He glanced at each other, and they both saw worry in each other's eyes, but seeing the butler's posture, they knew that they had no choice but to bite the bullet and followed the butler into the familiar prefect's mansion. Suddenly there was a feeling in my heart that "the wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return when he is gone".

In fact, Xiang Yu was also very puzzled by the deployment of so many soldiers and horses outside the gate of the mansion. For this reason, he asked Fan Zeng why he had deployed such a large battle, but Fan Zeng only said that it was to give Liu Bang and the others a disarm. Hit them hard.Xiang Yu had already rejected Fan Zeng's proposal to kill Liu Bang and the others, so he couldn't object to his method at this time, so he had to agree with a wry smile.Not long after that, the accompanying generals also arrived one after another, only Fan Zeng and Xiang Zhuang did not arrive, Xiang Yu felt very strange, because Xiang Zhuang has always been the most thorough in carrying out his orders, I don't know why he suddenly came late, So he sent someone to look for him in the barracks. As for Fan Zeng, Xiang Yu thought that he came late because of a knot in his heart, but he didn't mind it.

Seeing that Liu Bang only came in with Xiao He, Xiang Yu also had to admire Liu Bang's courage. If he only brought five hundred soldiers into the city because he did not dare to disobey his own orders, then he only entered with one person now. The government can see that he is not good, at least he still has some courage.Xiang Yu sat on the seat carelessly, pointed to the seat opposite and said: "You two sit there. When Mr. Fan and Mr. Fan arrive, I will order people to open the seat." There was a sense of respect in the words.

Liu Bang and Xiao He made a bow, and sat down according to Xiang Yu's order without saying anything.You must know that at that time, the saying that the seat was the seat for the banquet was very elegant. The superior position was facing the door, and it was mainly arranged for the entertaining guests. Since Xiang Yu invited Liu Bang to a banquet today, the superior position should naturally be seated by Liu Bang, but now Xiang Yu sat there.Of course, according to the custom of the Chu people to respect the left, Xiang Yu could have allowed them to sit on the left, but now the seat on the left was vacant, obviously it was reserved for Fan Zeng.This is sitting opposite to the master, and with his back to the ungrateful person, who is a subordinate, and it is mostly prepared for some servants, but today Xiang Yu let Liu Bang's two invited guests sit there, obviously it was against them humiliation.But Liu Bang and Xiao He had already made up their minds and put patience first, so even when faced with this situation, the two of them just smiled and sat there.

After a while, Fan Zeng and Xiang Zhuang walked in hand in hand. Seeing that everyone was already sitting, Fan Zeng clapped his hands and said, "I have some discomfort in my lower body, so I am late. I hope you will forgive me, and I consciously walked to the left." He sat down at the first place, and Xiang Zhuang walked to the right hand and sat down. When he sat down, he glanced at Liu Bang and the two inadvertently, and there was a strong murderous intent in his eyes, but everyone present except Fan Zeng found this out.

After the food and wine were served, the embarrassing scene was relieved. Xiang Yu held the golden statue in his hand, and smiled at Liu Bang: "In order to entertain General Liu today, I called all the generals under my special general Xiang Ji to let everyone know each other. First of all, secondly, it’s also to cleanse General Liu.” Pointing to a bearded man with a fierce face, he said, “He called this man Wu’s name She, and he was a man who was brave enough to win the three armies. , He took the lead and killed more than ten generals in a row. He can be said to be the number one fierce general in our army." Then he pointed to a long, shrewd and capable man and said, "His name is Yingbu, and he is a man of wisdom and courage. It was the strategy he came up with that allowed our army to take it down without losing thousands of troops."

Xiang Yu introduced the generals under his command to Liu Bang one by one, and Liu Bang had to raise his glass one by one, but among these people, only Xiang Ta, Xiang Bo and Yingbo raised their glasses to return to Liu Bang, and the others just gave a little respect. Nod and accepted.Finally, Xiang Yu pointed at Long and said: "He is the only one among these generals who can fight me. He was guarding Donghai County that day, and it took me a lot of effort to defeat him. Who is optimistic about it, it must be Long Qie." Long Qie hurriedly said a few words modestly.After introducing the generals under his command, Xiang Yu asked with some surprise: "I remember that General Liu also has several generals who are accustomed to fighting. Why don't you bring us to drink with us today? By the way, I remember one of them A man named Zhou Bo fought with me that day, and although he was finally captured by me, he is very good at leading troops and is a hero, why don’t you see him today?” He said that when he was captured by him, the audience Several of the generals showed smiles.

Liu Bang seemed not to notice their ridicule at all, and said calmly: "Since those people returned to Chu, they are already the generals of the Great Chu, and they are no longer under my Liu Bang's command, and I have no right to take them out. Qin I did not bring them."

"So that's the case. I'm asking too much. I thought that General Liu wanted to support himself as much as I do." Xiang Yu said without joking.Then he asked again: "Now that the Qin army is approaching the city of Sishui, I wonder if General Liu is willing to join hands with me, the traitor of Chu, to defeat them?" Xiang Yu asked

"This is exactly what Liu Bang wants to see. I think if the king knows what General Xiang thinks, he will definitely not care about what General Xiang did before." Liu Bang said hurriedly.

"Since General Liu said so, is there a way to retreat from the enemy?" Xiang Zhuang on the side suddenly interrupted and asked, without mocking in his tone.

Liu Bang was stunned, then shook his head and said: "I haven't thought about this yet, I wonder if General Xiang has thought about it?"

Xiang Yu said with a smile: "The strategy to destroy Qin is already in my mind. If the Qin army does not come, let it go. If it does come, I will tell him to come and die as many times as possible. Well, let's not talk about these business matters today, let's drink alcohol, and I will wait until tomorrow. I'm going to order the whole army to quit drinking." Then he poured another cup of wine into his mouth.Hearing Xiang Yu's words, everyone hurriedly picked up their wine glasses to have a drink, stopped talking about military affairs, and started talking about other things, such as which girl is beautiful and so on.

When the wine was hot, Xiang Zhuang suddenly said: "We people are drinking here, accompanied by silk and bamboo, and dancing with beauties, we really can't enjoy ourselves to the fullest."

Cao Jiu on one side smiled and said, "Let's say that women are not allowed in our barracks, even if it's okay, now it's almost dawn and most of the people in the city are asleep, so where do we go to find beautiful women to sing and dance?"

Xiang He also joked: "Unexpectedly, Brother Zhuang, you already understand the beauty of women at such a young age. Come, I will toast you." He drank the wine in his glass.As soon as these words came out, all the generals in the room laughed. It turned out that although people at that time generally married early, but in this village, there were people who had never met a woman, so everyone felt very sorry for Xiangzhuang's words. It was interesting, and they all laughed.

Xiang Zhuang's face flushed because of their disturbance, but he couldn't do it, so he could only wink at Fan Zeng again and again.It turned out that Fan Zeng and him came late today because they made a plan to stab Liu Bang to death, and what they said just now was an excuse, but now it has caused everyone's jokes.Seeing Xiang Zhuang's embarrassment, Fan Zeng said hastily: "Actually, women must sing and dance to help enjoy the wine. We are all martial arts practitioners. Why don't we let one of us perform a sword dance here to help the drink?" It makes everyone happy, and it won't break the rules of our army."

"Mr. Fan's method is very good. I wonder which general is willing to dance?" Xiang Yu was the first to support.

As soon as Fan Zeng was about to speak, Xiang Ta said first: "Since it was brother Zhuang who said just now that you can't enjoy drinking like this, let him dance for a while." At this point, he glanced at Xiang Zhuang and Fan Zeng. He had already seen through the two people's thoughts in the conversation, and he also wanted to get rid of Liu Bang, because he was afraid that the two would be too conspicuous, so Xiang He helped Fan Zeng speak up.

As soon as Xiang Zhuang heard this, he stood up and said, "In that case, let me do the dance of throwing bricks and attracting jade first." Immediately, a soldier took a sword and presented it to Xiang Zhuang.Holding a sword in one hand and a wine glass in the other, he drank the wine when he reached the arena, then threw the wine glass back to his table, pulled out his sword and danced in the arena. "I got out of my chariot and pastured it. From what the Son of Heaven told me, it was said that I was coming. Called the servant, and said it was carried. The king's affairs are so difficult, and it is difficult to defend them. I get out of my chariot, and I am in the suburbs. Let’s set this up, let’s build it up..." Xiang Zhuang danced his sword while singing verses from the Book of Songs, and the sword moved slowly or quickly according to the changes in the verses, making the sword watchers feel uneasy. Jue was also attracted by his sword dance.Even Liu Bang, who is not very familiar with literature and ink, was moved by Xiang Zhuang's dancing and singing.

When everyone in the room was fascinated by Xiang Zhuang's sword dance and poetry, Xiang Zhuang had already walked towards Liu Bang slowly, still singing poems in his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on Liu Bang's throat.