Chapter 9: The Chess Game

On July 20, the building ship of Xiazhou Taishou Wangguan arrived in Huaiyang, and Chen Hongyi, Xie Qian and others were facing a great enemy at the wharf. After Wang Guan got off the boat, they were relieved, and everyone was worried that Wang Guan would bring another prince or a new emperor over, but Wang Guan only brought a navy to prepare to Jinling.

As soon as Wang Guan arrived, it was another three days.

Liu Jian was half-drunk every day for the past three days and was helped back by Li Xiaofei. Li Xiaofei hadn't drunk alcohol yet, and he almost vomited when he first smelled the wine on Liu Jian's body, but on the third day, he smelled the fragrance, thinking that if he could drink the wine, he would also have a fragrance.

Li Xiaofei was thinking about it, and Liu Jian in the house called him in. Li Xiaofei pushed the door in and closed the door, only to see that Liu Jian had already sat next to a few cases and put the chess pieces, Liu Jian stretched out his hand and pointed to the chessboard: "Xiao Fei, come here, this king will teach you to play chess", Xiao Fei walked over and sat down respectfully: "I am willing to listen to the teachings of the prince", Liu Jian picked out a white chess piece and fell in the middle, and then said to Xiao Fei: "This is the Tianyuan position, the middle position, our game of chess fell in the Tianyuan position as soon as it came up, it is not easy to play", Xiaofei nodded, Liu Jian smiled: "Actually, I just want to talk to you, this chess should be taught slowly, It takes many years to learn chess games. Xiao Fei said slowly: "Isn't the position of Tianyuan that the prince said the throne?" Now there are so many big officials and princes fighting", Liu Jian laughed: "The children can be taught, the children can be taught." I found out that my master was really a saint, and the soldiers under his command could say something unusual. It was only in the past few days that I figured out what my master had done. No wonder Wang Xian is also jealous of him, my master is more treacherous than a traitor, and he always thinks about things in the long run. Xiao Fei didn't answer, just listened to Liu Jian continue to tell Chen Hongyi's past story. As he spoke, Liu Jian poured all the chess pieces on the chessboard: "Actually, my master is just a chess piece, everyone in Huaiyang City is a chess piece, no, everyone in the world is." Xiao Fei asked suspiciously: "Even the prince and the official are just chess pieces, who is the chess player?" Emperor? But the emperor was killed", Liu Jian smiled bitterly: "I used to think that I could become a chess player, but now it seems that even the emperor is just a chess piece, and everything we do is just to follow the trend", at this time a voice came from outside the door: "Well said, follow the trend, for or not, the key is still in the people"

Xie Rui pushed the door and bowed: "Disturbing the prince late at night, I also want to play a few games with the prince." Liu Jian got up and greeted Xie Rui, Xiao Fei quickly got up and retreated and waited outside the door.

Xie Rui and Liu Jian played against each other for two hours, Liu Jian called Xiao Fei to pour water, when Xiao Fei entered, Liu Jian smiled and said to him: "Xiao Fei, playing chess, if you want to apprentice, you should worship Xie Gongzi, tonight I will play three games, I will lose all", Xie Rui waved his hand: "Where is it, the prince is humble, I am just competitive." Liu Jian arched his hand: "I have admired Gongzi's talent for a long time, I have the honor to play today, and it is an eye-opener, presumably Gongzi will come today to teach Xiao Wang", Xie Rui drank his saliva and said slowly: "I have observed for more than ten days, and your concentration is the best, so I came to visit today", Liu Jian was very surprised: "How can you see it?" Xie Rui smiled: "Because only the prince didn't give me a gift or set up a banquet to invite me and my father", Liu Jian smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I'm too poor, so I just don't give it or don't invite it", Xie Rui waved his hand: "Now is the very time, as long as you are a prince, you must have more or less the idea of being the emperor, and the prince has suppressed it under the teachings of Lord Chen, and this alone is very remarkable." After analyzing the current situation, I sent the story of Jin Wengong in the prince's history to the prince, hoping that the prince could understand the good intentions of the prince." Liu Jian bowed his head and thanked him, Xie Rui took another sip of water and left with a smile.

On July 24, under the repeated urging of Chen Hongyi and Wang Guan, Jingzhou's soldiers and horses Chen Jiajun and Wang Guan's naval army finally marched to Jinling. In order to persuade Wang Xian, Chen Hongyi took the initiative to give up Huaiyang City, and let Liu Ke, the king of Jingling, join the army in Jingzhou, Wang Xiang and Xie Qian, Xiao Ding, Lu Feng, Shen De, and Zhang Sheng with 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers and horses to defend the city together. Wang Xian was the commander-in-chief, with Qi King Xiping Wang Qinghe Wang Yuan Kang as the Chinese army, and Chen Hongyi as the vanguard to kill Jinling.

Su Shouzhong of Jinling City learned that Wang Xian's army was about to be killed, and he also prepared troops and horses to strengthen the city defense, and sent envoys to form an alliance with Hou Tianzhou, so that Hou Tianzhou could kill Jiangling after taking Xiangyang, and copied Wang Xian's back road.

It was said that Hou Tianzhou had been attacking Xiangyang for a long time, so he sent Hou Zhao to bring the golden cloth and silk beauties to the Black Flag Khanate of the Fire Dragon Clan to ask for rescuers to buy siege oil. After the Great Khan of the Black Flag Khanate Pajaqili won the golden cloth beauty, he personally led 30,000 cavalry to Xiangyang with a fire linoleum cart.

Li Xiaofei followed Liu Jian to Jinling, and the master and servant were in Wang Xian's army, and the team walked very slowly along the way. After traveling less than fifty miles in a day, they had to set up camp. Liu Jian was not happy but had a bad seizure, but Li Xiaofei was familiar with the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou in a few days. Li Xiaofei left a sentence Wang Dashuai is mighty, and the right sentence is how Chen Junshi was back then, every time he starts and asks others to tell the story, it is as lively as a rural market along the way. Liu Jian shook his head secretly: "If this was in the Chen family's army, I am afraid that they would have been whipped a long time ago, so casual and hip-hop, it is hopeless to expect them to recover Jinling City."

Walking and walking, Jingzhou Jun and Li Xiaofei chatted about the fight against Jinling, and there were many discussions: "With Chen Junshi taking the lead, taking down several generals of the rebels, the naval army will throw stones and smash open the city gate, and we will win the battle directly into the city at that time, and when the time comes, there will be many of us, and Jinling City will be ours", "I heard that the rebels put all the gold and silver treasures looted in Jinling City", "Also, whoever finds the King of Jin first is the three-year-old child, and there is also a heavy reward", "We go this time, and we are lucky to be from the dragon heroes, no matter how bad it is, we can wear gold and silver to make a fortune." ”。

Liu Jian took a deep breath and beckoned Li Xiaofei to come over: "Let's go to Chen Jiajun, I feel that we will die with them sooner or later", Li Xiaofei looked around, and attached his head to the past: "Lord Wang, let's go at night, let's go now, if Wang Dashuai starts a fire, it won't end well", Liu Jian nodded: "You're right, you continue to hang out with them, I will get off the horse and lead the horse to deliberately go slower."