Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 23
Gaixia, the camp of the Han army.

After two days of conditioning with traditional Chinese medicine, Liu Bang's wind-cold disease has been much better.

When his health improved slightly, Liu Bang hurried to find Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, and once again secretly discussed the matter of enfeoffing the princes and kings. The matter of changing Han Xin to the king of Chu was agreed last time. They were willing to make Yingbo king, but Chen Ping and Zhang Liang agreed that Yingbo should be made king, otherwise it would be difficult to convince the public.

Although Liu Bang was born as a rascal in the city and had no culture, his political understanding is unmatched, and he also has an advantage that ordinary people do not have, that is-follow the good!As long as others are right and reasonable, Liu Bang can correct his mistakes, and he will correct them immediately.

After listening to Chen Ping and Zhang Liang's suggestions, Liu Bang decided to make Yingbu King of Huainan.

When the three monarchs and ministers were about to continue discussing the territory of Huainan Kingdom, Xia Houying suddenly broke in with a sad face.

"Xia Houying, what are you doing with such a sad face?" Liu Bang frowned displeasedly, "Also, who let you in?"

"Your Majesty!" Xia Houying knelt down on the mat, weeping uncontrollably, "Old Fan, Lao Fan is gone, ouch."

"He's gone, Lao Fan?" Liu Bang didn't turn his head, and said unhappy, "Where did he go? Didn't he follow Li Zuoche to play Shouchun again..." At this point, Liu Bang's voice suddenly changed There was a pause, he had come to his senses now, and pointed at Xia Houying with his right index finger, and said in a trembling voice, "You mean, you mean, Fan Kuai..."

"Yeah, yum." Xia Houying wept bitterly, nodded heavily, "He was beheaded by Xiang Zhuang."

"Ah!?" The faces of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping changed drastically, and Fan Kui, the top general of the Han army, was beheaded! ?

Originally, Liu Bang's face was a little pale because of the wind and cold, but after hearing the news of Fan Kuai's beheading, Liu Bang's face turned red instantly, and he pointed at Xia Houying with a trembling right hand. After that, he fell down, and passed out on the spot due to the attack of energy and blood.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

Xia Houying and Chen Ping were shocked, and hurried forward to help Liu Bang up.

Xia Houying hurried to find the wounded doctor again, strangled the victim, stroked his chest and beat his back. After tossing and tossing for a long time, he finally woke up Liu Bang. As soon as Liu Bang woke up, his eyes showed a fierce look, and he gritted his teeth and said: : "Xiang Zhuang? Xiang Zhuang's son! Shuzi! Idiot! How dare you cut off my brothers and feet, I, Liu Bang, will never end with you! There will be no end!"

After that, Liu Bang struggled to stand up again, and said to Xia Houying: "Xia Houying, beat the drums and gather the generals, call the army, I, I want to conquer Shouchun by myself, and I want to cut off the dog's head of the boy in Xiangzhuang with my own hands, hurry, hurry! Go!" Before he finished speaking, Liu Bang staggered and fell down again, and the old wounded doctor and Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, and Xia Houying had another toss.

At this time, after Liu Bang was rescued, he didn't say that he wanted to conquer Shouchun himself, but he began to cry loudly: "Fan Kuai, Fan Kui, good brother, good brother Gu, why did you leave? Gu hasn't sealed you yet. Hou, why did you just leave? Back in Guanzhong, how could Gu Ke tell A-Mei, hey hey..."

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Shouchun, the residence of General Xiang Zhuang.

The multi-branch lamps placed at the four corners illuminate the entire hall as bright as day.

Xiang Zhuang was kneeling as the chief, Huan Chu, Ji Bu, Xiao Gongjiao, and Yu Ziqi were kneeling on the lower left, and Wu She was kneeling on the lower right, as well as Wei Liao with a gloomy expression. He was forced to come here by Jing Qian half-invited and half-forced at the military meeting of the army.

Xiang Zhuang's eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, and finally paused on Wei Liao's face for a moment, and then said: "The scouts report, the [-] troops led by General Li Zuoche under the command of King Han Xin of Qi are less than [-] miles away from Shouchun. At the latest at noon tomorrow, we will be able to reach Shouchun City, everyone, tell me, how should we fight this battle?"

Huan Chu said: "What is there to say? Let's fight as the general says!"

Ji Bu, Xiao Gongjiao, and Yu Ziqi also nodded in agreement. After the battle in the afternoon, Xiang Zhuang's prestige had been completely established. Now even if Xiang Zhuang ordered Ji Bu to lead his troops to die, he would never He won't frown, because he believes that since Xiang Zhuang made such an order, he must have his reasons!

But Wu She said worriedly: "General, Li Zuoche is a descendant of the general. He is well versed in the art of war and has a lot of strategy. He has always been highly valued by King Han Xin of Qi. He also has a lot of rules in how to use troops. You must not underestimate them." What's more, the army led by Li Zuoche is [-], which is almost ten times the strength of our army. If we confront each other head-on, we will be defeated but never won."

"Hey, sir, you're worrying too much." Huan Chu waved his big hand, and said disapprovingly, "Let alone Li Zuoche, even if his grandfather Li Mu is reborn, I'm afraid he won't be the opponent of the general!" After saying this, Huan Chu said again , "Besides, what about a [-] army? All the soldiers of our Chu army can count as ten, and we are not afraid of another hundred thousand!"

Wu She didn't argue with Huan Chu when he heard the words, but just shook his head and smiled wryly.

Xiang Zhuang suddenly asked Wei Liao again: "Mr. Wei Liao, what do you think?"

"Hasn't the general already made arrangements?" Wei Liao said angrily, "Why bother asking."

"It's true that you can't hide anything from Mister, haha." Xiang Zhuang couldn't help clapping his hands and laughed loudly, "Then Mister thinks, can the strategy of flooding defeat Li Zuoche's army?"

Wei Liao rolled his eyes and said nothing more.

"Sir, if you don't speak, you think that Li Zuoche's strategy of flooding can't be broken?" Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly, and said, "Why don't you make a bet, if Li Zuoche is broken, from now on, sir I have to serve as my staff, I have to advise Chu State, if Li Zuoche can't be broken, then this general will let you go immediately, how about that?"

"I never bet with anyone." After Wei Liao finished speaking, he simply turned around and ignored Xiang Zhuang.

Xiang Zhuang was bored, and immediately asked Yu Ziqi: "General Ziqi, how long can the food in the city last?"

Yu Ziqi hurriedly knelt up straight, bowed and replied: "Report to the general, there is still food in the city, and it can last for half a month!"

"Can you still eat for half a month?" Xiang Zhuang nodded, and said again, "Leave five days' rations, and make all the rest into dry rations and take them away. Not a grain of rations will be left for the Han army."

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At noon the next day, the Han army arrived as expected.

Amidst the endless sound of horns, the banners covering the sky and the sun slowly appeared from the eastern horizon.

Immediately after the banners appeared densely packed soldiers of the Han army, first armored soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding large shields, then sharp soldiers holding long halberds and wearing light armor, and then sharp soldiers holding short blades and wearing geese. The dead soldiers in clothes, followed by miscellaneous soldiers and slaves, stretched from the bottom of Shouchun City to the end of the field of vision, endlessly.

It was only a stone's throw away from Shouchun that the Han army slowly stopped.

At the opening of the formation flag, first a group of soldiers rushed out with a whimper and took hold of the formation, and then a two-driver chariot slowly drove out of the formation surrounded by dozens of cavalry generals.

On the chariot, Li Zuoche held the shaft of the chariot and stood proudly.

Seeing the clouds of banners and the forest of halberds and spears on the top of Shouchun City, and thousands of soldiers from the Chu army almost crowding the city, Li Zuoche suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.

Jin She, who was following the chariot on horseback, frowned and asked in puzzlement, "General, what are you laughing at?"

Li Zuoche stroked his long black beard under his chin, and said calmly: "I laugh at Xiang Zhuang, although he is a little smart, he is also quite brave, that's why he was able to defeat Fan Kui twice, and he even beheaded Fan Kui yesterday." Before the battle, but after all, he has never read any military books, and he doesn't know that Shouchun is a Jedi, and if he sticks to Shouchun, he will seek his own death!"

"The Chu army's attempt to defend the strong city is really a desperate situation." Jin She nodded and said with deep conviction, "Our army only needs to firmly guard the four gates. The Chu army has no reinforcements outside and lacks food and grass inside. How many more days can you last?"

"No." Li Zuoche waved his hand, and said calmly, "Sun Tzu said, the master must be surrounded, so we can only surround it on three sides, but only one side." After finishing speaking, Li Zuoche turned back and ordered the general Xia Hou Blade said, "General Xiahou, you lead 1 people to camp outside the north gate of Shouchun. You must block the way for the Chu army to break through, and no one can leave!"

"Promise!" Xia Houren agreed with a bang, and immediately picked up his troops and rushed to the north gate.

Li Zuoche said to Jin She again: "General Jin She, you lead your headquarters with 2 troops and set up camp outside the south gate of Shouchun."

"No!" Jin She gave a bow, and immediately rode his horse into the formation, mobilized the [-] troops of the headquarters and rushed to the south gate.

After watching Xia Houren and Jin She leave with their troops, Li Zuoche ordered again: "Head the army camp outside the east gate!"

Li Zuoche gave an order, and the 2 people in the headquarters began to get busy immediately. The soldiers and soldiers were busy unloading their armor and resting, the husbands were busy unloading the luggage and building tents, and the miscellaneous soldiers went to the nearby mountains to cut down trees, and then carried them back to set up. Fences, building watchtowers, and a small number of cavalry cruising around, responsible for vigilance.

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Shouchun city head.

Seeing the Han army dividing up the camp, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but sneer, "Wei San Que Yi?"This is an old routine that has been passed down for more than 2000 years. It doesn't work well here in Xiangzhuang!

Gao Chu scratched his head and said in puzzlement, "General, why did the Han army only surround three sides?"

"You idiot, stupid donkey, this is called Wei San Que Yi!" Qin Yu seized the opportunity, patted the back of Gao Chu's chest, and scolded his son, "From the grandson's 'Wai Shi' Must que', high school, you really should read military books."

"Fuck you." Gao Chu pushed Qin Yu away, and said angrily, "I also want to read military books, but why can't I read? I'm not like you. I came from a wealthy family, and someone taught you to read since I was a child."

"Yeah, can't I make a mistake?" Qin Yu said, "I'll teach you how to read another day."

"That's what you said. If you don't count on what you say, no brother will have to do it from now on, huh!"

"Grandma always counts on what she says." Qin Yu turned around after speaking, and whispered behind Gao Chu's back, "No wonder, I can't be your brother anyway, hmph."

(End of this chapter)