The battle came earlier than expected, and on this day, Li Qing was training the army when he suddenly received an order from Xiang Liang to go to the government to assemble.

Li Qing came to the mansion, at this time, Xiang Lianggao sat on the main seat, followed by Xiang Yu, Long Ji and others, there was an old man who attracted Li Qing's attention, this person's face was strange, and his eyes revealed great arrogance, as if nothing in this world could enter his eyes.

Seeing that Li Qing had been staring at the old man, Xiang Liang smiled slightly and introduced: "General Li, this is Mr. Fan Zeng, who joined the army, old man, this General Li is well-trained, and he is the best general in the righteous army. ”

"Fan Zeng?"

When Li Qing heard that the old man in front of him was Fan Zeng, he couldn't help but be in awe, who is this Fan Zeng? He is one of the most outstanding strategists in the late Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu's second father, although he is over seventy years old, but his heart has not changed, Xiang Yu has not had Fan Zeng's advice along the way, he may not be able to achieve hegemony.

Fan Zeng glanced at Li Qing, and couldn't help but let out a disdainful cold snort in his mouth, Li Qing looked less than twenty years old at this time, how could Fan Zeng take it seriously for a hairy boy like Li Qing, especially after hearing Xiang Liang praise Li Qing as the best general in training in the righteous army, Fan Zeng secretly shook his head in his heart, feeling that maybe it was not a right choice for him to defect to Xiang Liang.

Fan Zeng's disdain was not hidden, but Li Qing didn't care either, after all, Fan Zeng, an old man in his seventies, had a strange temper, which was really normal.

Li Qing took a seat, Zhong Liyi, who was originally sitting in another place, immediately sat behind Li Qing, Zhong Liyi has now been named a captain, and he suppressed a bandit rebellion with Xiang Yu and made great achievements.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Yu's eyes showed a trace of dissatisfaction, Xiang Liang didn't say anything about it, in Xiang Liang's eyes, ten Zhong Liyi were not as good as one Li Qing, in Li Qing, Xiang Liang felt the taste of his father Xiang Yan.

Xiang Liang saw that everyone had come, and said: "Everyone, the reason why we have convened everyone today is because Zhang Chu's righteous army has fallen into disadvantage under the attack of Qin General Zhang Han, and Chen Sheng, the king of Zhang Chu, wants us to immediately raise troops to the north, everyone, what do you think?" ”

Now all the righteous armies are under the banner of Zhang Chu, so theoretically speaking, they all belong to Chen Sheng's subordinates, and now Chen Sheng has summoned them to assemble, which is justified.

Fan Zeng proposed to immediately cross the river to join the rebel armies, and then attack Guanzhong together, in Fan Zeng's opinion, Chen Sheng has now reached Yingyang, as long as the rebel armies from all walks of life assist Chen Sheng, they will definitely be able to overthrow the tyrannical Qin.

After everyone discussed, they unanimously decided to go north to Surabaya County to join the righteous army, Xiang Liang took Xiang Yu as the vanguard, led 3,000 troops first, and led the remaining 12,000 soldiers and horses himself, and then crossed the river.

Although Li Qing has the responsibility of training troops, he does not have the right to command the troops, but Li Qing is unwilling to let the soldiers he has worked hard to train be commanded by others, so he proposed to Zhong Liyi to let Zhong Liyi take the initiative to apply for commanding the soldiers in battle.

Although Xiang Liang knew that the trapped were an elite trained by Li Qing, he still agreed to hand over the trapped to Zhong Liyi's command, and gave him the name "trapped".

The rebel army successfully crossed the Yangtze River, and after crossing the river, there were righteous troops who came to Xiang Liang every day, and these righteous soldiers were either thirty or fifty people, or three or two hundred people, they were all old people of Chu in the past, because Xiang Liang was a nobleman of Chu State, so he came to defect on purpose.

Li Qing can be regarded as having seen the benefits brought by being born in a famous family in this era, along the way, Xiang Liang's army has not even experienced a major battle, and all the counties along the way have heard that it is Xiang's army, and they all look at the wind.

In this way, the Xiang rebel army marched all the way to Jiujiang County, where they got the bad news that Chen Sheng was defeated and killed.

Chen Sheng died, this bad news made the morale of the rebel army with a rainbow of morale plummet, and Xiang Liang had no choice but to temporarily stationed in Shouchun, ready to wait and see the situation for the time being.

"Lord Zhuguo, there is a rebel army outside the city, claiming to be General Zhang Chu, and let Lord Zhuguo go out of the city to greet him."

A rebel soldier came to Xiang Liang's side to report, and when Xiang Liang heard that it was Zhang Chulai, he hurriedly led the generals out of the city to greet him.

Although it is said that Chen Sheng is dead, Zhang Chu is the first regime to rise up after all, Xiang Liang and others are now borrowing Zhang Chu's name to start an incident, and they naturally dare not slack off Zhang Chu.

"You are Xiang Liang?"

At the city gate, Qin Jia, the general of Zhang Chu, looked at Xiang Liang under the horse with an arrogant face, his eyes were full of contempt.

Xiang Liang was secretly angry in his heart, this Qin Jia was from a humble background, but because he got into trouble with Chen Sheng, he was reused by Chen Sheng, if it was usual, with Xiang Liang's background, this Qin Jia would not be qualified to look at Xiang Liang at all, but now Xiang Liang personally dismounted to greet Qin Jia, but Qin Jia didn't even get off the horse, so slow to treat Xiang Liang gave birth to a murderous intent in his heart.

Xiang Liang arched his hand and said: "This general is the son of Xiang Yan, the general of Chu State, Xiang Liang, I don't know if General Qin came today, what is the so-called matter?" ”

Qin Jia laughed and said: "Xiang Yan's son, I heard that Xiang Yan was beaten by the Qin general Wang Jian in the past, and the death of the Chu State, Xiang Yan can be said to be an unforgivable crime, as the son of Xiang Yan, now you are fighting against Qin, but it can be regarded as atonement for your father Xiang Yan." ”

As soon as Qin Jia's words came out, it immediately aroused public anger, Xiang Yan was the god of war of Chu for the old department of Chu State, even if he was defeated by Wang Jian in the end, but that could only be said to be the number of days, and now the god of war in his mind was so insulted by Qin Jia, where could everyone endure it.

"Zheng"

A general under Xiang Liang pulled out his sword, pointed at Qin Jia and scolded: "Ignorant horseman, dare to insult my general of the Chu State? ”

"Yes, you must give us an explanation today."

With the first one, the rest of the generals also pulled out their weapons one after another, they looked at Xiang Liang, as long as Xiang Liang gave an order, they would immediately take down Qin Jia.

Qin Jia didn't expect his casual words to cause such a big response, Qin Jia naturally knew Xiang Yan's prestige, and because of this, he deliberately said something derogatory to Xiang Yan, the purpose was naturally to suppress Xiang Liang.

Qin Jia knew that he was from a humble background, and after facing a famous family like Xiang Liang, he sincerely had an inferiority complex, so in order to be able to deter these rebel generals, Qin Jia had no choice but to establish his prestige by suppressing Xiang Liang.

Li Qing shook his head secretly, this person called Qin Jia is really too ignorant, he actually wants to improve his prestige by belittling Xiang Yan, doesn't he know that in this era of attaching importance to his origin, the Xiang family, who has been a general for generations, cannot be humiliated?

"Zhang Chu's regime is all reckless, and it will be difficult to achieve great things after all."