Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 763 Xiang and Liu

A group of real dragons sat beside the princes they respected and listened to Liu San's story.

It turned out that when Liu San was moving towards Xiang Yu, he was caught by the Qin army and attacked midway.

Not only that, the place where he was stationed was also surrounded by the Qin army and was on the verge of collapse.

He originally wanted to live and die together with his brothers, but in the end, it was Zhang Liang's words that asked him to seek help from Xiang Yu that made him go out alone.

Everyone, including Liu San himself, knew that asking for help was just a lie - given Xiang Yu's behavior, it was almost impossible for him to send reinforcements.

Asking for help was just to help Liu San escape from the desperate situation where he was sure to die, that was all.

But Liu San himself doesn't think so.

He really wanted reinforcements.

So, after arriving at Xiang Yu's camp, he immediately paid the highest price he could.

As a local lord, he bowed to Xiang Yu and pledged his allegiance in front of everyone.

Now, apart from the Qin State, the two most eye-catching princes in the world are Xiang Yu and Liu San.

The former has immense strength.

The latter, on the other hand, enjoys great prestige and popularity.

For Xiang Yu and his followers, Liu San was his biggest enemy on the road to becoming the Human Emperor - he could easily defeat Liu San, but he could not win the hearts of the people from Liu San.

If you cannot win the hearts of the people, it is impossible to become the emperor of mankind.

Just like the Qin State is unpopular now, when the first emperor became the Emperor of Man, he was also the one who carried the people's expectations.

Therefore, since the rise of Liu San, the people under Xiang Yu's command have been thinking about how to get rid of Liu San without leaving any traces, and how to make other princes have no choice but to entrust their "people's hearts" and "hopes" to Xiang Yu.

And now, Liu San told them the solution and answer to this problem.

There is no need to consider the numerous methods that may or may not work - all Liu San needs to do is give up his status as a feudal lord and submit to Xiang Yu, then all the people's hearts gathered around Liu San will naturally fall on Xiang Yu.

Therefore, when Liu San bowed down, not only Xiang Yu, but also those scheming counselors under Xiang Yu lost the ability to think in that instant.

Because of everything they had planned, the best outcome appeared before them.

"Please lend me fifty thousand..."

"No!"

"Thirty thousand!"

"I beg King Xiang to lend me 30,000 soldiers and horses to save my brothers and my soldiers and civilians." Liu San knelt down in front of the princes, his words earnest and sincere.

All the princes in the palace were moved.

Since ancient times, the princes of the world have sacrificed all living beings and given up friendship for the sake of power - but now, there is such a person who has given up the power and dignity of the princes for the sake of friendship.

"Brother Liu, why do you have to do this?" Xiang Yu laughed and stood up, walked to Liu San and helped Liu San up.

"Your brother is my brother."

"My brother is in trouble now, how can I just ignore him?"

"I will allocate 100,000 troops to you right now."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Liu San bowed again.

At this time, some generals under Xiang Yu also stood up and expressed their willingness to act together with Liu San...

Xiang Yu had immense power and naturally immense majesty.

He is invincible on the battlefield - therefore, he hates failure extremely.

Therefore, on the battlefield, not only other princes found it difficult to obtain support from Xiang Yu, but even the generals under Xiang Yu's command did not dare to ask Xiang Yu for help when the war was unfavorable - so, like other princes, they would ask Liu San for help.

Liu San would agree to their requests for help and would also help them keep the matter secret.

It is precisely because of this that even among the generals under Xiang Yu, Liu San has a very high reputation - it is no exaggeration to say that it is second only to Xiang Yu.

Afterwards, Liu San brought his own team to participate in this meeting of princes. It was during this meeting that Xiang Yu truly became the "king".

Then, under the command of this king, a large-scale decisive battle with the State of Qin took place.

Under the leadership of King Xiang, who was unprecedented in history, the army's offensive was advancing at a rapid pace.

Although the Qin State had its share of famous generals, they could only retreat step by step in front of Xiang Yu, who was able to defeat an army alone and was almost like a god of war. In the end, the two sides fought a tug of war in front of Tongguan - behind Tongguan was the Guanzhong area, the real foundation of the Qin Empire.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many cases where various princes joined forces to attack Qin - but each time, the coalition forces were stopped before Tongguan.

The geographical advantages of Tongguan are evident from this.

With such geographical advantages, even Xiang Yu would find it difficult to break into Tongguan.

Not to mention the coalition forces of the princes.

As a result, the two sides confronted each other here for two years.

Two years later, the impatient Xiang Yu made an appointment with all the princes to disperse and attack Guanzhong from different directions. Whoever entered Guanzhong first would be promised to be king.

The second king after King Xiang.

As a result, Liu San unexpectedly entered Guanzhong first, announced the demise of the Qin Empire, and made three laws with the people of Guanzhong.

By the time other princes, including Xiang Yu, came to their senses, the people in Guanzhong had already been stabilized by Liu San.

——At this time, Liu San also changed his name to Bang, which means home and country.

In the face of the history that Liu Bang had once been a vassal of Xiang Yu, at this moment, regarding Liu Bang's achievement of taking Guanzhong first, Xiang Yu became hesitant, hesitating whether to fulfill his previous promise.

Regarding this, Xiang Yu's advisers and generals also had great differences of opinion.

Those generals believed that King Xiang should keep his word. Since he had promised that whoever entered Guanzhong first would be king, he should follow his promise now.

However, his advisers believed that the promise of becoming king whoever entered Guanzhong first was made by Xiang Yu to the princes and had nothing to do with ministers like Liu San.

As a person who is qualified to compete for the title of Human King, or even Human Emperor, they had finally managed to bind Liu San under Xiang Yu's command with the etiquette of monarch and subject. If at this time, Liu San was allowed to leave Xiang Yu's system and be allowed to be king, it would be tantamount to letting a trapped dragon ascend to heaven.

Xiang Yu was also conflicted between the two arguments.

However, he did not notice it at all, because his own adviser's words, "The agreement is between the princes and has nothing to do with the ministers", made the generals under his command have a gloomy look in their eyes.

Then at this time, a general named Ying Bu stood up and bowed to Xiang Yu.

"With your status as a king, the weight of your promise is not as important as a king title?" "Or do you think that since Liu San and you are both princes, you can't control him?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Xiang Yu immediately made up his mind and ordered Liu Bang to withdraw from Guanzhong. At the same time, he also enfeoffed him as the "King of Han" as promised.

After the fall of Qin, two kings emerged, Xiang and Liu.

Then, there was an extremely cruel competition.

The two Human Kings are competing with all their might against the Human Emperor.

During this competition, the human nature that Xiang Yu despised played an unprecedented role.

Because of their fear of Xiang Yu, other princes and even the generals under Xiang Yu turned to Liu Bang one after another.

Liu Bang did something unprecedented. He divided the battlefield into two parts. One part of the soldiers was led by himself, while the other part was entrusted to a commander named Han Xin.

As a result, the battle situation was divided into two along with the battlefield - in the front, Xiang Yu was chasing Liu Bang, winning battle after battle, unstoppable, breaking up Liu Bang's army again and again, annihilating him again and again, and even forcing Liu Bang to abandon his wife and children.

However, on the other side, it was Han Xin who dispatched troops like a wild horse, with a variety of ingenious plans, and occupied Xiang Yu's territory madly with the momentum of swallowing up.

Xiang Yu's troops moved back and forth between Liu Bang and Han Xin. He defeated Liu Bang with one foot and then repelled Han Xin with the other. He was invincible and never suffered a defeat.

However, Xiang Yu's situation at this time was exactly the same as it was in the Daze area before.

Although he was winning battles one after another, the morale of his troops was becoming increasingly unstable, and his own territory was becoming increasingly smaller.

On the other hand, Liu Bang was obviously losing all the time, but as he kept losing, his territory became larger and larger, and the number of soldiers under his command also increased.

Under this situation, Xiang Yu's brows became increasingly furrowed.

He has already seen where the gap in the situation lies - among the three strongest military commanders in the world today, the first is naturally Xiang Yu, the second is Han Xin under Liu Bang, and the third is Liu Bang.

Among them, the second and third combined may not be a match for Xiang Yu.

But the problem is that the second and third are two people, and Xiang Yu is unable to cope with them all.

He could only deal with one person at a time, and no matter whether he was facing Liu Bang or Han Xin, the other person who escaped would not be able to be resisted by the generals under his command.

Moreover, the combination of the second and the third always allows him to harass them just right when he has the chance to kill them, creating an opportunity for the second or the third to escape from the battlefield. Both Liu San and Han Xin can seize the opportunity created by the other party and escape.

But even so, the generals under Xiang Yu, as well as the immortals and gods who supported him, those Daluo, still maintained great confidence in Xiang Yu.

The reason is also very simple.

King Xiang was invincible on the battlefield - and as for the dispute over the Human Emperor, a dispute involving many Daluo, what could not be obtained on the battlefield could not be obtained outside the battlefield either!
Thus, the situation in this world became stagnant.

The incomparable Xiang Yu was trapped bit by bit by the huge net, and he had difficulty in moving left or right. On the other hand, the Liu and Han armies of the Han Dynasty were also unable to face Xiang Yu, and it was impossible for them to defeat him before his death.

Under this trend, the entire human world has shown a tendency to split into two.

It seemed that the kingdoms of the two human kings would last forever, and the fighting would continue forever.

But for some people, this situation is completely unacceptable.

For example, Zhang Liang.

So one day, Zhang Liang found Liu Bang.

Inside the palace, Liu Bang was drinking and having fun with his generals - unlike Xiang Yu who was stingy, Liu Bang's actions could be said to be extremely magnanimous.

Although he himself was only a "king", the generals under his command were all awarded titles such as this king, that king, this marquis, that marquis, etc.

Zhang Liang looked at the messy palace and his face couldn't help but twitch. His eyes immediately fell on the other ministers in the palace.

"I asked you to stay with the King of Han and give him advice at all times and teach him etiquette. Is this how you give advice and teach him?" Zhang Liang looked at those ministers, his eyes clearly revealing this meaning.

These ministers who were drinking and having fun together also shrank back immediately, not daring to look at Zhang Liang.

advise?
How could they have the power to touch the King of Han who never cared about etiquette and hierarchy?
Today, the King of Han and his generals are drinking and having fun together - if Zhang Liang had come yesterday, what he would have seen was the King of Han drinking with those wanderers and beggars on the streets.

"It's rare for Prime Minister Zhang to have some free time, why not have a drink with me?" Looking at Zhang Liang who had barged in, Liu Bang didn't care at all. He gladly invited Zhang Liang to drink with him, and even poured wine for Zhang Liang himself. Then, he naturally blocked Zhang Liang's reproachful gaze.

"Does the King of Han want to divide the world with King Xiang, or does he want to unify all the land like the First Emperor?" Zhang Liang took the glass of wine seriously and drank it in one gulp.

"If possible, I naturally hope to unify the country like the First Emperor." Liu Bang's expression became solemn, and the laughter in the hall also subsided.

"What can I do..." Liu Bang sighed. "King Xiang's power is beyond human power."

"If we can't defeat King Xiang, how can we unify the country?"

"You can't let me surrender to him." Liu Bang said helplessly.

"But I have a risky plan, but I don't know if Your Majesty dares to use it," said Zhang Liang.

"Speak first, speak first." Liu Bang showed a cunning look, pushed away the wine and food on the table, and did not care about the wine stains on them. He just sat down and crossed one leg.

Just by looking at this movement, Zhang Liang's brows, which had just relaxed, could not help but began to twitch again.

"The danger of this plan lies in the king's life," said Zhang Liang.

"If Your Majesty uses himself as bait to lure King Xiang out, King Han can take the opportunity to block King Xiang's return journey."

"By that time, King Xiang's army will be isolated."

"Your Majesty has millions of soldiers under his command. Even if we pile them up, they are enough to kill King Xiang." Zhang Liang said calmly.

"The key to this plan is that Your Majesty must let King Xiang see an opportunity to kill Your Majesty, not just an opportunity to defeat Your Majesty."

"In other words, if you use this strategy, Your Majesty will really die at the hands of King Xiang."

"It's a life-threatening strategy." Liu Bang sighed, looking at Zhang Liang with doubt in his eyes.

"If I didn't know you well, I would have thought you had already sided with King Xiang."

Liu Bang pondered.

Zhang Liang's strategy was an open conspiracy - of course, in a situation involving so many great masters, there was no room for conspiracy.

Even though those Daluo may not know the future because of the entanglement of humanity, their foundation is enough to enable them to evolve the situation over and over again in their own time and space, and then see through all the strategies.

Therefore, the only strategy on the battlefield is open conspiracy.

A situation that both parties agree on and both believe they will win - only in this way can both parties place heavy bets on it.

That is, this was the strategy proposed by Zhang Liang at this time.

A life-threatening gamble.

(End of this chapter)