According to Wang Bang's order, the Wuguan Qin army soon sent an envoy out of the city to the west, and invited Li Cai to Wuguan City to discuss with Wang Bang in person under the banner that Wang Bang wanted to discuss with Li Cai in person.

It was also a coincidence that when the envoy sent by Wang Bang came to the gate of Li Caijun's camp, a scout happened to report in front of Li Cai, saying that Wuguan Guancheng closed the west gate in broad daylight for no reason, temporarily cutting off the connection between Wuguan City and Li Caijun's camp. Why do you close the gates in broad daylight? The north and south of Wuguan are steep, there is no way out, and it is impossible for the thief army to sneak attack the west gate of Wuguan behind the back? ”

"General, do you want to send someone to inquire about the situation? See what the reason is? Deputy Deng Guo suggested: "Wuguan is too important, we better be careful." ”

Li Cai nodded, and was about to send someone to Wuguan to contact and understand the situation, but unexpectedly, there were soldiers outside the tent to report, saying that Wang Bang sent someone to ask to see, Li Cai smiled when he heard it, and immediately nodded and agreed to ask for a meeting, and then after a while, Wang Bang's messenger came to Li Cai's face, and very respectfully invited Li Cai to Wuguan for Wang Bang to meet, Li Cai, who was frank in his heart, of course agreed, and then asked curiously: "By the way, what happened in Wuguan City?" Why did you close the west gate just after noon? ”

"This ......." Of course, Wang Bang's envoy didn't dare to answer the truth, so he could only say very vaguely: "General Li, the villain doesn't know about this matter, and I don't know the specific reason, so I can only ask the general to ask us General Wang in person." ”

"Okay." Li Cai did not doubt that he had him, but directly turned to his right-hand man Deng Guo and ordered: "Deng Guo, you temporarily preside over the affairs of the military camp for me, and I will come as soon as I go." ”

Deng Guo's heart was very careful, and he didn't immediately clench his fists to receive the order, but said: "The general is slow, and the last general still has an important military report." ”

After finishing speaking, Deng Guo also turned to the envoy of the royal state and ordered: "You go out for a while first, I have something to report to General Li in person." ”

Wang Bang's envoy agreed, and he hurriedly withdrew from the tent for the time being, and Deng Guo also said to Li Cai: "General, in the opinion of the last general, you had better not go to Wuguan City." ”

"Why?" Li Cai asked suspiciously.

"General, don't you notice something strange about this?" Deng Guo said: "How to join forces to resist the thief army, we have already discussed with General Wang Bang, why do we have to negotiate face-to-face now?" Wuguan first suddenly closed the door in broad daylight, and then deliberately made an excuse to invite you to meet in Wuguan City, what did Wang Bang and they want to do? ”

"You're too suspicious." Li Cai said with a smile: "The thief army is just outside the gate, for the safety of the city, what is the wonder of suddenly closing the city gate during the day?" Besides, why did Wang Bang deliberately make an excuse for me to go to Wuguan to meet him? ”

"General, it's better to be careful." Deng Guo reminded uneasily: "This morning, Xiang Kang sent someone to persuade you to surrender, there is a military pass between us and the thief army, Xiang Kang and the thief also sent someone to persuade you to surrender, Wuguan can directly contact the thief army outside the gate, how could Xiang Kang not send someone to persuade Wang Bang to surrender?" ”

Li Cai was stunned, and it took a while to understand what Deng Guo meant, and hurriedly asked, "Do you suspect that Wang Bang is vacillating and making excuses to trick me into going to Wuguan to take me down?" And then you want to sacrifice me to the thief army? ”

"It is indispensable to guard against others." Deng Guo replied: "After all, even the dignified Nanyang County Shou Lu Qi has defected and surrendered to Xiang Kang's traitor, not to mention Wang Bang, a small military guard. ”

Li Cai laughed loudly and said: "General Deng, prudence is a good thing, but this time you really suspect the wrong person, General Wang Bang once worked with me, I know his personality, except for his temper and impulsiveness, there is absolutely nothing to say about our loyalty to Daqin, the thief army persuaded to surrender, if others may be shaken, I may believe it, but if he is shaken, I am the first to absolutely not believe it." ”

The loyal Deng Guo still didn't dare to rest assured, and urged Li Cai to be careful, but Li Cai absolutely trusted Wang Bang and insisted on shaking his head, Deng Guo was helpless, so he had to change his words and said: "Since you must go, general, then you'd better bring more soldiers to protect you and prevent accidents." ”

Thinking of Deng Guo's kindness, Li Cai nodded and accepted his suggestion, and decided to take his own personal army and two hundred elite soldiers to Wuguan together, Deng Guo was also a little relieved, but for the sake of prudence, after Li Cai left, Deng Guo decided to send more scouts on his own to closely monitor Wuguan's every move.

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Deng Guo asked Li Cai to take more soldiers to Wuguan Although it was a good intention, but unfortunately this time he inadvertently pitted the unlucky General Li Cai, and saw Li Cai with more than 200 soldiers coming over from afar on the west gate of Wuguan. What does he want to do? ”

"General, be careful." Ning Zhi, who was also very suspicious of Li Cai next to him, said: "Although there are not many more than two hundred soldiers, if you suddenly attack when you meet, it will still pose a threat to you, the general." ”

Wang Bang nodded slowly, and after a little calculation, he quickly came up with a way to clean up Li Cai, instructed the generals under his tent to lead the army to ambush Hou Ming in the city, and called the city gate officials to give him an explanation, and then sent Ning Zhi to go down to meet Li Cai on his behalf.

After Wang Bang's arrangement was arranged, Li Cai had also come to the west gate of Wuguan, Ning led a team of soldiers out of the city to greet him, and invited Li Cai into the city with a smile on his face, but when the Qin soldiers brought by Li Cai followed and wanted to enter the city gate, the city gate officer jumped out to stop him, and said: "Soldiers, please stay, our General Wang has an order, without his order today, no one is allowed to enter and leave Wuguan, you can only ask you to wait outside the door." ”

The Qin soldiers brought by Li Cai had no choice but to ask Li Cai's opinion, and Ning Zhi next to him hurriedly said: "General Li, our General Wang does have this order, if you must bring the army into the city, we must first ask General Wang for the order." ”

"What the hell is going on?"

Li Cai finally became vigilant in his heart, and suddenly remembered the kind reminder of his deputy Deng Guo when he set off, and hurriedly used the corner of his eye to look at the surrounding situation, but what surprised Li Cai was that the streets near the city gate were empty, and there was no one in Guanzhong, and at the same time, there were faint figures flickering in the lanes. There is an ambush! Could it be that Deng Guo's suspicion is right, Wang Bang has really betrayed?! ”

Having come to this conclusion, Li Cai hurriedly smiled slightly, and said to Ning Zhi: "Since General Wang has an order, General Ning will wait a while, I will go and give an order and let them wait at the city gate." ”

After that, Li Cai turned around and was about to walk back to his army, but Ning Zhi next to him had an average level of fighting, but his reaction was very fast, and he immediately grabbed Li Cai and said with a smile: "General, why bother you to give the order personally, let's just say it loudly here." ”

After saying it with a smile, Ning Zhi immediately shouted: "Brothers in Guanzhong, General Li has an order for you to retreat outside the city and wait." ”

Ning Zhi was pulling people and shouting, of course, even if he was stupid, Li Cai knew that the danger had come, and he was busy struggling to run, while shouting: "Quick, come up and save me!" ”

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the jack gate hanging on the inside of the west gate of Wuguan for emergency use suddenly fell to the ground, smashing several of Li Cai's personal soldiers directly into meat sauce, directly cutting off the road connection between Li Cai and his subordinates, and at the same time, the streets near the city gate were full of killing sounds, and countless Qin soldiers rushed out with their spears, and in the blink of an eye, Li Cai was surrounded by water!

It happened too suddenly, and when Ning Zhi's personal soldiers rushed up to help Ning Zhi hold Li Cai down, Li Cai came back to his senses, struggled and yelled frantically: "What are you going to do? Do?! ”

"What for?" Ning Zhi directly smashed Li Cai's nose with a punch, and immediately smashed Li Cai's face to the ground, his nose bleeds, and he scolded with a cruel smile: "Dog thief!" Of course, Lao Tzu wants to take down you, a shameless traitor who betrays the country and seeks glory, and execute the car crack! ”

"Selling the country for glory? Who betrayed the country for glory?! Li Cai was completely dizzy, and hurriedly shouted: "Where is Wang Bang? Where is Wang Bang? I want to see him! I want to see him! ”

"Fulfill your wishes."

Ning Zhi smiled cruelly, and his own soldiers immediately took out ropes to tie Li Cai's five flowers, and the soldiers of the Qin army who suddenly killed were divided by two, and quickly cut down or took down all Li Cai's personal soldiers, and at the same time, they stabbed each other through the jack gate and the Qin soldiers brought by Li Cai, preventing Li Cai's soldiers from destroying the jack gate, and each other was soon killed and injured.

Next, when Li Cai was escorted to Wang Bang in a daze, he listened to Wang Bang's bloody scolding even more confusedly, Li Cai finally came back to his senses, struggling and yelling: "General Wang, you took me down, do you suspect that I defected to the enemy and betrayed?" This and that to that? Our Li family has been favored by the country, and the emperor has been very kind to our Li family, no matter how wolf-hearted I am, it is impossible for me to do such a thing? ! ”

"That's a nice thing to say." Wang Bang laughed angrily and shouted: "Show him the letter, and see how he quibbles!" ”

Ning Zhi, who captured Li Cai with his own hands, agreed loudly, immediately picked up Li Cai's letter in front of Wang Bang, walked up to Li Cai and raised it with both hands, and sneered: "Dog thief, now you have nothing to say, right?" ”

After reading the letter carefully in disbelief, Li Cai was first dumbfounded, and then screamed like a pig, "Fake!" This epistle is false! I have never written this epistle! This letter must have been forged by the thief army, and it was used to drive a wedge between you and me, General Wang, you must not believe it! Don't believe it! ”

"Pretending to be true." Wang Bang sneered again and ordered: "Bring that thief envoy up, let him confront this traitor face to face, and see what else this traitor has to say." ”

After Wang Bang ordered, the unlucky young marshal army envoy was quickly escorted to Li Cai, who was also extremely unlucky, and because he was afraid of being beaten and tortured, Ning Zhi just asked if Li Cai personally handed over the letter to him, and the young marshal army envoy immediately nodded again and again, and said: "That's right, it's him, it's this General Li Cai, who personally handed over the letter to the villain, and let the villain hide it in the mezzanine of his clothes and take it back to the right general of our Chu State." ”

"You talk nonsense!" Li Cai was completely crying without tears, and shouted frantically: "I didn't! You talk nonsense, I didn't give you any letters, I just scolded you and kicked you out of my camp! There were a lot of people there at the time, and a lot of people could testify to me! ”

"You're acting." The envoy of the young marshal army hurriedly distinguished: "You just pretended to scold me in front of others, and then quietly took me to other tents and handed me the letter alone. ”

Li Cai was almost mad, struggling to rush up and fight with the young marshal's envoy, Wang Bang and Ning Zhi in order to have a certificate in the future to explain to the Great Qin court, of course, let people pull Li Cai away, hold it down tightly, the unlucky General Li Cai roared wildly, and the hall was completely chaotic.

If there was no later incident, everyone calmed down and calmly analyzed and speculated that the unlucky General Li Cai might still have a chance to get the snow from his grievances, but unfortunately, God sometimes likes to stand on the side of the bad guys and villains, just when Li Cai was about to burst his throat, a herald suddenly rushed into the lobby, hugged his fist to Wang Bang and said: "General Yuwang, our friendly troops stationed in the west of Wuguan suddenly poured out and were killing the west gate of Wuguan, as if they were coming to attack the west gate of our Wuguan. ”

"Do you have siege weapons?" Wang Bang hurriedly asked.

"Nope." The herald answered truthfully.

"That's fine." Wang Bang breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a cruel smile: "Without siege weapons, Li Caipifu's rebels are dead, and they don't want to rush to the head of Wuguan City." ”

"But General, our gates have been destroyed." The herald said with a sad face: "Just now, those rebellious thieves couldn't break through the jack gate, so they smashed our city gate and broke the bolt, and now there is only one jack gate left at our west gate to guard!" ”

"What?!" Wang Bang's surprise was not trivial, and he quickly jumped up and shouted: "Quick, Ning Zhi, Gu Chuan, hurry up and bring your army to reinforce Ximen, and you must not let the rebels break through the jack gate!" ”

Ning Zhi and Gu Chuan's second generals also knew that the matter was urgent, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they hurriedly rushed out to lead the army to reinforce Ximen, while Li Cai quickly calmed down and hurriedly said: "General Wang, I am really wronged, if you can trust me, you will immediately take me to Wuguan Ximen, let me shout to persuade them to withdraw first, and then we will discuss slowly." Otherwise, if my army merges with you because of a misunderstanding, and the thief army takes the opportunity to attack the city, Wuguan will be over! ”

After hesitating for a moment, Wang Bang, who had not yet been extremely irritable, found that it was indeed good to do this, so he nodded and said, "Okay, as long as you can get your army back, I will promise not to kill you, and give you a chance to distinguish." ”

Li Cai nodded hurriedly, at the moment Wang Bang hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to escort Li Cai, personally took Li Cai to hurriedly ascend to the West Gate, the result was not bad, when Li Cai went to the West Gate of Wuguan, although his deputy Deng Guo had already taken Li Caijun to the outside of the West Gate of Wuguan, but he had not had time to launch an attack, and was still nervously arranging the army, Li Cai did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked Wang Bang to let people shake the white flag to remind Deng Guo outside the city to pay attention, and at the same time shouted frantically: "Deng Guo, don't attack the city!" Don't take a siege! This is a misunderstanding! It's just a misunderstanding! ”

The waving white flag successfully attracted the attention of Li Caijun, and Deng Guo immediately sent someone forward to hear Li Cai's shouts in the city, but after the obedient soldiers who stepped forward reported the situation to Deng Guo, Deng Guo was still very suspicious, and said to himself: "Misunderstanding our General Li surrendered? Really? Could it be that our General Li was forced to tell a lie because of the traitorous coercion of Wuguan? ”

After talking to himself, Deng Guo went up to the obedient soldier and asked, "What is the current situation of our General Li?" ”

"It's far away, and I can't see it very clearly." The soldier replied truthfully and said, "I only saw that our General Li was tied up, and there was still blood on his face and body. (The nosebleed that was beaten by Ning Zhi before.) ）

"General Li was really forced to tell a lie." Deng Guo came to a conclusion, and saw from afar that the Qin soldiers were moving behind the Qianjin Gate, as if they were urgently blocking the west gate of Wuguan, Deng Guo, who was loyal to Li Cai, did not dare to hesitate, and hurriedly shouted: "Beat the drums, attack the city, and quickly rescue our General Li!" ”

The war drums sounded, and the Qin army in Guanzhong rushed to the west gate of Wuguan, where the city gate had been destroyed, and the Qin soldiers in the city were helpless, so they could only hurriedly open their bows and arrows at the friendly army, and Li Cai on the city wall almost fainted, shouting in despair: "Deng Guo, why are you so confused?" Don't listen to me at all? ”

The rain of arrows of the Wuguan Qin army did not stop the pace of the Qin army in Guanzhong, only the first charge, there were hundreds of Qin soldiers rushed through the moat under the west gate of Wuguan, and rushed directly into the city gate.

In fact, as early as when the Qin army in Wuguan was designing to capture Li Cai, the sentry scouts arranged by the young marshal army on Shaoxi Mountain in the north of Wuguan had already discovered that the situation in Wuguan was wrong, and had already reported the news to Xiang Kang, and Xiang Kang immediately understood that the situation was not right, and the self-army might get the opportunity to attack the city, and the officers and men of the young marshal army had made certain preparations. But what Xiang Kang never expected was that it didn't take long for the Qin army in Guanzhong to go out and forcibly attack the west gate of Wuguan, so that when he heard the news, Xiang Kang couldn't believe his ears at all, and asked in a loud voice: "The reinforcements of the violent Qin army attack the west gate of Wuguan?" How is this possible? Is it wrong? The reinforcements of the Tyrannical Qin army are crazy? Why do you want your own people to beat your own people? ”

"General Right, absolutely yes." The scout replied excitedly: "The villain can see clearly on Shaoxi Mountain, the reinforcements of the Tyrannical Qin army are really storming the west gate of Wuguan as if they have fallen into an evil spirit. ”

Xiang Kang continued to be dumbfounded, but Chen Ping next to him immediately reacted, and hurriedly said: "General Right, if nothing else, it should be that your discord plan has been successful, and the two violent Qin armies misunderstood each other, so there was a firefight." ”

"But that's not too good, isn't it?" Xiang Kang was surprised and said: "I just want the tyrannical Qin army in Wuguan to suspect their reinforcements, and dare not let their reinforcements enter the city when we attack the city, how can the effect be so good that they can directly start fighting?" ”

"General Right, it doesn't seem like this is the time to think about this, right?" Chen Ping smiled and said, "The most important thing for us now should be to send troops immediately and attack Wuguan Guancheng before and after with the reinforcements of the Tyrannical Qin army, right?" ”

Xiang Kang patted his forehead, and hurriedly instructed the young marshals and generals who had rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army: "Quickly, the whole army is assembled, distribute siege weapons, and send troops to attack the city." Also, it was not early, and the rear army immediately rushed to make torches and dry rations and sent them to the front line for backup. ”