Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 97
"What did you say?!" Peng Yue suddenly changed his expression, "This is serious?"

After surrounding Ao Cang for more than half a month, they didn't even dare to set fires, isn't it just to get the corn, tens of thousands of strong men and hundreds of thousands of women and children in the city?But now a guy came out and told him that Chen Xi was about to surrender to the Han again, so he, Peng Yue, had been working in vain for half a month, and what about Liang Guo, who was already in a mess?
The scholar in white sighed and said, "I am here to save the king, so how can I lie to each other?"

"Really?" Peng Yue naturally wouldn't believe it easily. Although he is not very smart, he is definitely not stupid. Soon he came up with a unique trick to test the truth with the thinking of a martial artist, and immediately raised his head and shouted: " Come, set up a big cauldron for the widow, add fuel to the fire, and cook this spy for the widow!"

The two personal soldiers entered the account in response, and knocked the white-clothed gentleman to the ground in one fell swoop.

The white-clothed scholar's face changed drastically, and he protested loudly, "King Liang, what are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" Peng Yue said coldly, "How dare you lie in front of the widow? If you tell the truth about your true purpose now, the widow can still spare you."

The scholar in white said coldly: "Since that's the case, I don't want to say anything."

"Want to pretend to be a hero? Tell you, there is no such thing." Peng Yue's face trembled, and he said murderously, "I have killed countless people in my life, why do I care about killing you one more?"

After finishing speaking, Peng Yue waved his hand again, and the two soldiers escorted the white-clothed scholar out of the big tent.

Outside the tent, a large iron cauldron with a caliber of five feet has been set up, the cauldron has been filled with oil, and dry wood has been added to the bottom of the iron cauldron, and it is burning violently. It took less than two quarters of an hour. The kerosene in the big iron cauldron has already emitted blue smoke, and people standing beside the kettle can feel the smoky heat wave from a long distance.

Peng Yue walked up to the white-clothed scholar, and said fiercely, "Tell me, who sent you here?"

The scholar in white curled his lips, then turned his face to the side, he didn't even bother to look at Peng Yue.

Peng Yue was furious, and immediately yelled: "It's cooked, throw this spy into the oil pan and cook it!"

"Promise!" The captain of the personal soldier promised with a bang, and immediately led three other personal soldiers to grab the white-clothed scholar by his limbs, lift him up, and put him in the air on the big iron cauldron, perhaps to let the white-clothed scholar "enjoy" a moment before he died The four of them didn't let go of the fear in front of them, but hung the white-clothed gentleman on the big iron cauldron like that.

Peng Yue stared at the gentleman in white for a moment, but made a "slow" gesture with his right hand very discreetly.

The scholar in white never looked at Peng Yue again from the beginning to the end, and the expression on his face was very calm, as if he really didn't care about life and death. At this moment, Peng Yue believed it!

From Peng Yue's point of view, if this white-clothed scholar had a ghost in his heart, he would never be so calm!

In less than a moment, the gentleman in white and the four soldiers hanging on the big iron cauldron were already drenched in sweat. The gentleman in white seemed a little impatient, so he turned his head and said to the lieutenant of the soldiers: "Why do you have to make things difficult for the general?" A person who is about to die? Why don't you let it go and let me die happily."

The soldier's captain became more and more sweaty, and he didn't dare to let go without Peng Yue's nod.

After another quarter of an hour, Peng Yue finally waved to the captain of the army. The captain of the army, as if he had been pardoned, hurried away from the big oil cauldron with a white-clothed gentleman, and Peng Yue straightened his clothes. He stepped forward and gave a long bow to the white-clothed gentleman, and said: "Just now I offended you a lot, I hope you don't take offense."

The white-clothed scholar snorted and said coldly: "If your majesty doesn't believe it, I will kill you. If you believe me, then don't do such useless temptations. Although I don't have much talent, I can't compare to Fan Zeng and Zhang Zhang." Liang has the extraordinary ingenuity to strategize and win thousands of miles, but he is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death."

"Meng Lang, my widow, forgive me, sir." Peng Yue's posture was extremely low.

After finishing speaking, Peng Yue solemnly made a gesture of invitation, and said: "The widow has prepared a fragrant bathing soup for the gentleman, please ask the gentleman to take a bath and change clothes, and then we can talk about it in detail."

"Alas." The scholar in white sighed, his attitude finally softened, and he said immediately: "There is no rush to take a bath and change clothes. If Your Majesty believes that I am here, then go to Lu Ze's camp as soon as possible. Otherwise, once Chen Xi's messenger and Lu Ze made an agreement, the king has no chance even if he wants to save the situation."

"Yes, yes, yes." Peng Yue patted his forehead, and suddenly said, "I'm all confused."

After finishing speaking, Peng Yue turned his head and shouted to the captain, "Peng Ming, hurry up and prepare the horse!"

Captain Peng Ming, the nephew of the Pengyue clan, said with concern, "Uncle, do you want my nephew to accompany you with five hundred soldiers?"

"No need." Peng Yue waved his hand, with a heroic air in his gestures, and said coldly, "Even Liu Bang dare not do anything to the widow, how dare Lu Ze do anything bad to the widow?"

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Lu Ze's camp was stationed less than ten miles away.

Although it was late at night, Lu Ze was still awake, and he was going crazy over a scroll of letters.

This slip was sent by a guy who claimed to be Chen Xi's disciple half an hour ago. The Han army and Liang army only blocked the northern city gate, and did not encircle Aocang on all sides, so some people can go out of the city in a hanging basket , this is not surprising, what puzzled Lu Ze was that the content of this letter was simply incomprehensible.

This letter should be a secret letter, the title on the upper right is Lu Ze, and the signature on the lower left is actually Chen Xi.

However, most of the writing in the middle was smeared out, especially many key points were completely smeared. The only few recognizable handwritings were not clear what they were talking about. Lu Ze really couldn't figure it out. Why did you send such a weird secret letter here?

If it wasn't Chen Xi, then who sent the messenger?What is the purpose of sending this letter?

Holding the letter, Lu Ze repeatedly identified it against the oil lamp, trying to recognize the original handwriting from the altered ink, but it was futile, the handwriting was absolutely unrecognizable.

When Lu Ze was puzzled, a small official came in and said, "My lord, the King of Liang is asking to see you."

"King Liang?" Lu Ze asked in amazement, "It's so late, why is he still looking for me?"

As soon as the words fell, the curtain of the big tent was suddenly lifted, and Peng Yue had already strode in. When Lu Ze was about to get up to meet him, Peng Yue had already rushed forward in two steps, and the slash was out of Lu Ze's hand. He snatched the letter, and in a hurry, overturned Lu Ze's inkstone, pen holder, and brush that were placed on the desk.

Lu Ze frowned, and immediately said in displeasure, "King Liang, what are you doing?"

Peng Yue ignored Lu Ze, just glanced at the slip, and said angrily, "Lord Lu Ze, do you think that if you erased these words on the slip, you will not know anything?"

Lu Ze said angrily, "King Liang, I have never altered the handwriting on the slips."

"It hasn't been altered?" Peng Yue shook the wooden slip in his hand, and said angrily, "How can this be explained?"

"I don't know." Lu Ze said unhappily, "Before you came, I just received this letter, but it looked like this when I opened it. These handwritings were not altered by me at all. If King Liang doesn't believe it, Now I can call the messenger who sent the letter to come forward and confront you."

"Okay." Peng Yue said coldly, "It happens that I also want to meet Chen Xi's emissary."

Lu Ze immediately ordered his servants to summon Chen Xi's envoy. Lu Ze was a cautious person and always cautious in handling affairs. After the messenger who claimed to be Chen Xi's envoy delivered the letter, Lu Ze did not let him go, but sent someone He stayed in the name of hospitality, and this meeting will be in Lu Ze's Chinese army camp.

The underlings came back soon, but Chen Xi's envoy did not come.

When Lu Ze was about to ask a question, the underling had already leaned into his ear and whispered, "Your Excellency, the envoy sent by Chen Xi just committed suicide by cutting open his stomach!"

"Ah?" Lu Ze lost his voice, "How could this happen?!"

The little official at the door responded with a wry smile, but Peng Yue said coldly: "Master Lu Ze, is there any embarrassment?"

Lu Ze sighed quietly, and said helplessly, "Forgive me, King Liang, the messenger who claimed to be the messenger of Chen Xi just committed suicide by caesarean section."

"Committing suicide by caesarean section?" Peng Yue said sarcastically, "Are you a three-year-old kid?"

Without waiting for Lu Ze to argue, Peng Yue said again: "Lu Ze, do you think that if you smear the secret letter and kill the envoy, the widow will not know the truth of the matter? The widow will tell you that there are tens of thousands of strong men in Aocang city. Hundreds of thousands of women and children belong to the Kingdom of Liang, and you are only here to help the battle at the order of the King of Han, so you are not qualified to accept Chen Xi's surrender!"

"Why did King Liang say that?" Lu Ze frowned displeased, "I haven't figured out the matter yet!"

"Okay, you fucking stop pretending, hum!" Peng Yue snorted, and immediately walked away.

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