Chapter Seventy-Eight: Li Xin
Ziying and his party had just passed through the Chu Junbashang garrison.
"Stop!" Ziying hurriedly said, "Untie the carriage immediately, and Mr. Lu Jia will take the four Qin disciples to ride back to Xianyang as soon as possible." ”
Ziying deliberately didn't say that he would bring a disciple, this guy is as unreliable as Zhao Kuo on paper.
"Is the king afraid that Pei Gong will take the opportunity to attack Xianyang?" Lu Jia beside him asked.
"Did Mr. Lu think he wouldn't?" Ziying was puzzled, Liu Bang took advantage of Xiang Yu's fight for Tian Rong and dared to attack Xiang Yu's Pengcheng.
Lu Jia pondered, "Mr. Zifang reminded Pei Gong not to enter Xianyang first, Pei Gong fell due to illness, only Xiao He can give advice in the camp, Xiao He is the most listening to Mr. Zhang Liang, and I guess no." ”
Ziying shook his head, although Xiao He listened to Zhang Liang, he was definitely not an opinionated person. Liu Bang's grain and grass are all managed by Xiao He in the rear. With Xiao He, Liu Bang has never been worried about food and grass. Besides, Xiao He is still the prime minister in the future.
"If it was Xianyang in the past, Xiao He wouldn't do it, the current Xianyang is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Xiao He will definitely do it in order for Liu Bang to be king." Ziying analyzed while untying the horse, "Even if Xiang Yu wants to make trouble, King Chu Huai is still there, they can still be safe." ”
Lu Jia secretly marveled at Ziying being so familiar with Xiao He.
"It's a miscalculation." Lu Jia got out of the carriage and saluted.
"It doesn't matter, as long as you don't almost kill a widow like the Mongols." Ziying smiled.
Zhang Liang's strategy to get the Huangshi Heavenly Book has been completed, and Lu Jia is now just a lobbyist, and he still needs to be tempered by the dispute between Chu and Han to determine the national policy.
The Mengtu panicked, "This... If Xiao He sends troops, I'm afraid that Xianyang has fallen, and the king still doesn't want to go back. ”
"If Zhao Cheng is as stupid as you, Xianyang will really be lost!" Ziying gave the disciple a blank look.
There were 20,000 lieutenants in Xianyang and 50,000 in the central guard. As long as Zhao Cheng and the commander of the central guard are not the same as Mengtu, Xianyang can't be lost.
Mengtu breathed a sigh of relief, "Then what else is the king worried about?" ”
Ziying had nothing to say, "You brought out all the people in the city, and Liu Bang's people took the opportunity to sneak in and follow into the city, will the widows be picked out one by one in the future?" ”
"Let's go!" Ziying straddled the horse of the Mengjia Liema, "We must go to Xianyang City before the people enter the city." ”
The fierce horse of the Meng family seems to know the master, and without the wildness of that night, he carried the child all the way wild, and the cold wind of the October night howled the child and the baby was chilled all over.
After nearly an hour's journey, Ziying arrived at Xianyang in half an hour, and Mengtu and his party were left far behind.
Under Xianyang City, there were more than 10,000 middle guards in armor neatly arranged, and the men with loose hair in front of the middle guards were drunk and drunk.
"The minister almost thought that the king would not come back." The man smirked.
"You're the central defender?" Ziying frowned and looked at the decadent man who was about fifty years old, "The enemy is still drinking, and tomorrow the widow will punish you!" ”
"Then let's talk about it tomorrow, and the king, please go back to the city." The man didn't care at all, "And let the minister solve the king's worries first." ”
"Do you know what the widow is worried about?" Ziying questioned that the commander of the central guard was nothing more than a military ruffian, and Ziying didn't believe that he had much ability.
The man smiled, "Don't worry, if Liu Bang's people dare to sneak in, the ministers will kill one by one." ”
Ziying was a little surprised, this drunk man could still have such a careful mind, and the case of the disciple was in front of him, and Ziying was still not at ease.
"The widow wants to see how you pick it out." The child led the horse to the drunkard's side.
The drunk man took a sip of wine, his eyes blurred as if he was recalling the past, "The minister will not let the monarch down again." ”
Half an hour passed, more than a million residents and 20,000 guards marched to the city of Xianyang.
Lu Jia and Mengtu stood respectfully behind Ziying.
The drunk man got up and smashed the wine jug, and a gleam flashed in his drunken eyes, "The guards entered the city first, and the people of Xianyang are waiting for inspection." ”
As soon as the words ended, a riot broke out in the crowd.
"What is this going to do, Your Majesty?"
"That's right, we're going to help the king, and we still need to check when we come back?"
"It's chilling!"
The people who were originally united began to mumble in twos and threes, and they already had prejudices against the child.
Seeing that the momentum was not good, Ziying hurriedly said in a loud voice, "The commander of the central guard is afraid that Liu Ying's people will sneak in, for the safety of Xianyang, you should cooperate." ”
"After a night of walking, the grass people are tired and want to go home and sleep immediately, and the same is true for the villagers!" A big man in coarse cloth instigated.
The commander of the central defender opened his eyes wide, and his body came to the big man's side like lightning in an instant, and his hand fell with a knife, and a bloody human head rolled to the ground.
"Murder, the commander of the guard has killed innocents indiscriminately!"
"We might as well do it the other way around!"
Ziying's face turned pale, and the situation was out of control.
"Shut up Lao Tzu!" The commander of the central guard raised his bloody sword and kicked the head into the crowd, "If any of you recognize this person as someone from Xianyang City, this commander will kill himself on the spot!" ”
In the crowd, several men looked at each other and nodded secretly.
"I know this person, he is the eldest son of the Zhao family."
"I recognize it too! His old mother is still sick in bed, you are killing innocents indiscriminately! ”
The Commander of the Guard sneered, "Then where does this family live?" Who is the chief and who is the pavilion chief? ”
"This..."Several big men were speechless.
"Why don't you know that? Because he is not from Xianyang City at all! ”
The sword of the commander of the central guard flashed, and there were a few more heads on the ground, and he raised his head and shouted to the people, "This commander asks again, does anyone recognize these people, and the heads will be hung on the head of the city later, let you check it, if you kill innocents indiscriminately, you will be the commander of this army to fight for his life!" ”
The crowd fell silent, no one raised any objections, and the cold wind blew the face of the commander of the guard, and the decadent face faintly revealed the heroic spirit of the year.
"Now go into the city in turn!"
The commander of the central guard gave an order, and the people lined up to advance.
The light of the knife flashed, and from time to time people in Liu Ying's camp were stabbed to death.
"Are you sure you can miss a single one?!" Ziying asked.
"The other middle guards are guarding inside, and those who enter the city but walk around and don't return home will be killed!" The central defender smiled.
Ziying frowned slightly, this method may hurt the innocent, but it is also the easiest way.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! ”
When a group of big men heard this strategy, they turned around and ran straight out.
However, he was stopped by the crowd in the rear, and the central guards stepped forward to surround him, and the halberd poked and shook, and blood flowed all over the ground.
"Who the hell are you?" Ziying couldn't help but ask, this kind of resolute action should be a general left over from the First Emperor's period, but the commander of the central guard is too condescending.
"The minister should have attacked Yingdu, but now he was attacked by Chu to Xianyang, and the name of the criminal minister should not be mentioned." The central defender sighed.
"You're... Li Xin?! ”