The main force of Zhang Han's army, which was mainly composed of Lishan prisoners, was not actually good at fighting, but waving the earth and carrying earth and stone to build walls and fortifications, and it was only three days after retreating to the flood battlefield.

The moment the water of the Honghe River was introduced into the Qin army's camp and ditch, a burst of earth-shattering cheers immediately broke out in the crowd of Qin army soldiers who were working hard, and Zhang Han, who had not slept well since the retreat from the Thorn Plain, also breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the main force of the Qin army had really turned the corner from danger to safety, and had survived the crisis of destruction after the grain road was cut off by Xiang Kang's despicable villain, and already had the capital to confront the anti-Qin coalition army for a long time. Turn the tide of the war once and for all.

Unlike Zhang Han, who was greatly relieved, Wang Li, whose army had been hit hard, was in a complicated mood, not only quietly admiring Zhang Han's calmness and steadiness, but also bringing the main force of the Qin army back to the relatively safe flood battlefield under the tide of offensive of the anti-Qin coalition army, and ashamed of his recklessness and underestimating the enemy, he lost more than forty percent of the Great Wall Corps troops on the way to retreat, and was more worried that Hu Hai and Zhao Gao would investigate their own mistakes, and even affected the reputation of their grandfather and father.

Wang Li is a person who knows how to make amends, in order to reduce his responsibility, Wang Li in addition to taking the soldiers of the Qin army of the Great Wall Corps to desperately cover the repair of the camp fortifications of Zhang Han's department, but also has been looking for other opportunities to atone for his crimes, the result is also a coincidence, the second day after the Qin army camp was basically completed, the Great Wall Corps had just completed the cover task, and the Qin army scouts under Wang Li's command suddenly found that the anti-Qin coalition army quietly sent people to the upstream of the flood to explore the hydrological terrain, and seemed to be looking for a ferry that could be launched to rush the crossing.

After hearing the news, Wang Li thought about it again and again, and finally took the initiative to come to Zhang Han's face, in addition to personally reporting the situation to Zhang Han, he also proposed: "General, the thief army sent people to secretly explore the hydrology, and obviously wanted to bypass our army's camp to cross the flood, and rush to the back of our army to cut off our army's food route again. ”

"General Wang, I also wanted to discuss this matter with you." Zhang Han replied: "Actually, I have been worried that the thief army will make a detour to our back and cut off our grain route again, and I have long wanted to divide my troops to cross the river and strengthen the protection of the flood river, but I have some concerns, so I have not made up my mind." ”

"What are the General's concerns?" Wang Li asked curiously.

"We're concerned about the distribution of our troops." Zhang Han replied very directly, and said in a roundabout way: "In order to protect the rear before, I have transferred 50,000 troops from General Wang to cross the river in advance, and now if you ask the general to lead the army across the river and leave the front line temporarily, it will definitely make the general lose the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions." But if I draw troops from my direct army to cross the river, and there is no one on the west bank of the flood who can serve the people and take charge of the overall situation for me, I have not been able to make up my mind. ”

Before Zhang Han finished speaking, Wang Li already understood what Zhang Han meant, and knew that Zhang Han had actually wanted to send himself to guard the flood bank a long time ago, but he was only concerned about his own face problem and the feelings of the soldiers of the Great Wall Corps, so he was not in a hurry to open this mouth. And after understanding Zhang Han's hard work, Wang Li did not hesitate, and immediately left the table and bowed his hand to Zhang Han and said: "General, there is no need to say more, the sin will understand what you mean." Please rest assured that the general is willing to lead the army to guard the flood river for you, and there will never be half a word of complaint, if any of the soldiers under the command of the general can't figure it out, the general will definitely try his best to appease them, and he will definitely not miss your big thing, general. ”

When Zhang Han heard the great joy, he hurriedly left the table to personally pick up Wang Li, said kind words to Wang Li, and admonished: "General Wang, after you cross the river with the army, you must build fortifications and fortifications in various places along the flood, and build a beacon tower at intervals, so that you can send a message to the police at any time. ”

Wang Li agreed, and in turn told Zhang Han: "General, you also have to be careful, after the sin general crosses the river with his headquarters, the camp on the east bank of the flood is only guarded by one of your troops, and the thief army is likely to take the opportunity to launch a strong attack, your pressure is huge, so you must be careful." Also, if you are worried about the lack of troops, Sin will be able to leave some of your troops to help you defend the camp, and hand over full authority to you to command. ”

At this point, of course, the estrangement between Zhang Han and Wang Li was greatly reduced, and the relationship suddenly became much closer, and it was quickly discussed that Wang Li would lead the remaining troops of the Great Wall Corps to retreat to the west bank of the flood, responsible for defending the flood river, and the commander-in-chief would command the defensive operations on the west bank of the flood, not giving the anti-Qin coalition army a chance to break through the Qin army's flood defense line, and at the same time, Wang Li would also leave 20,000 troops to be handed over to Zhang Han for command, so as not to weaken the army strength on the east bank of the flood of the Qin army too much.

After making up his mind, Wang Li had just returned to his camp, and immediately summoned all the generals under his command to announce the matter, asking the generals to prepare for the camp immediately, and the next day he would move the army to the west bank of the flood to garrison. As a result, as Zhang Han was worried about, the generals of the Qin army such as Shijian under Wang Li's command were really dissatisfied, and said one after another: "If you want us to guard the river, is the general afraid that we will drag him back on the front line and make it clear that he looks down on us?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Wang Li hurriedly scolded, and said: "To tell you the truth, it was actually my idea to move the camp to guard the river, and the general also trusted us, so he handed us the responsibility of protecting the flood river, and don't take the general's kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs." ”

The prestige left by Wang Jian and Wang Ben was still there, and seeing that Wang Li also said so, the generals of the Qin army, who felt insulted, still swallowed their anger and hugged their fists to accept Wang Li's order, but just when Wang Li was about to announce the disbandment of the tent, there were suddenly personal soldiers outside the tent to report, saying that there was a suspicious man who came to the camp to ask to see Wang Li, and there was a very important confidential matter to be reported to Wang Li in person. Wang Li felt strange when he heard this, so he asked, "Where are the people?" ”

"General Huiyu has been escorted, and he is waiting outside the tent." The soldier replied truthfully.

"Bring it in."

Wang Li casually ordered, and then soon, a strange man who looked like an ordinary person was escorted to Wang Li, when Wang Li asked about his origin and identity, the man first carefully confirmed Wang Li's identity, and then told the truth, "General Wang, the villain is a messenger sent by Xiang Kang, the right general of Chu State, and there is a confidential letter to be presented to you in person." ”

"The messenger sent by Xiang Kang'er?" Wang Li, who had never been in contact with Xiang Kang, was inexplicable, but still asked, "Where is the letter?" ”

"In the arms of the villain." The man puffed up his chest, and after Wang Li nodded, his own soldiers also immediately stepped forward and took out a letter written in a slip from the man's arms.

It is conceivable that Wang Li was puzzled and shocked after seeing the text of the letter, and exclaimed in his heart: "What's the matter? This letter was obviously written by Xiang Kang Xiao'er to Zhang Han, how could it be sent in the envelope of the letter addressed to me? Also, what does Xiang Kang'er mean by this letter? Could it be that Zhang Han has a secret relationship with him, and he has already developed a disagreement with our Great Qin Imperial Court? ”

"General Wang, what does the letter say?"

The confidant general next to him asked curiously, but Wang Li didn't answer, and after thinking for a while, Wang Li also asked the young marshal army messenger: "In addition to this letter, does Xiang Kang Xiao'er have anything else to say?" ”

"Back to General Wang, our right general also said that as long as you can listen to his good words and persuade you, and surrender as soon as possible with the soldiers under your command, he guarantees that you will only be more reused in the Chu State, and you will be prosperous and rich forever." The young marshal army messenger replied truthfully.

"It turned out that I came to persuade him to surrender."

The generals of the Qin army next to him suddenly realized, and they also laughed at Xiang Kang's daydreaming, and even sent someone to persuade Wang Liyi, who has been a loyal minister of the Great Qin for generations, to surrender, and the young marshal army messenger was also a little scared, and hurriedly said: "General Wang, generals, the villain is just a small official who sends a letter, the two countries are fighting, don't kill the envoy, it doesn't matter if you don't listen to the persuasion of our right general, the villain must bring your words when he goes back, and please don't embarrass the villain, the villain is also to have something to eat to serve the right general." ”

The king remained silent, and thought about it for a long time before he said: "Leave this messenger for the time being, don't embarrass him, and wait until I understand the general before I deal with it." ”

The soldiers in the tent agreed, and immediately escorted the messenger out of the tent for temporary detention, and then Wang Li ordered the tent to be dispersed, and asked the Qin army generals to immediately go down and prepare to move the camp, but after the Qin army generals left, Wang Li was not in a hurry to see Zhang Han to clarify the matter, and read the letter carefully, and was undecided, and said secretly: "What is going on?" The messenger sent by Xiang Kang Xiao'er clearly said that he came to persuade me to surrender on behalf of Xiang Kang Xiao'er, but why was the letter written to Zhang Han? The content of this epistle is ......, do you want to give this epistle to Zhang Han? ”

What made Wang Li even more surprised was still behind, when it was about to get dark, Zhang Han suddenly sent someone to invite Wang Li to post the account, and Wang Li, who had been undecided, hurriedly took the letter with him, and led a few personal soldiers to the Chinese army's tent to meet Zhang Han. As a result, Zhang Han smiled at Wang Li as soon as they met: "General Wang, do you believe that there is such a ridiculous thing in this world?" Xiang Kang sent someone to deliver the letter to me, but he actually sent the letter to you by mistake. ”

"Xiang Kang Xiao'er sent the letter to the general by mistake to you?" Wang Li was stunned for a moment, then his heart moved violently, and he suddenly understood something, and hurriedly asked Zhang Han: "General, where is the letter?" What's the content? ”

As a result, after reading Xiang Kang's letter persuading him to surrender as soon as possible, Wang Li also completely woke up and said secretly: "I understand, it must be like this, it must be Xiang Kang'er who wrote to me and Zhang Han at the same time, but I was careless and accidentally sealed the text of the letter in the wrong envelope, sent the letter to me to Zhang Han, and sent the letter to Zhang Han by mistake. ”

After coming to this conclusion, Wang Xingzhong couldn't help but feel a little creepy, and said in his heart: "If the truth of the matter is like this, doesn't that mean that Zhang Han has really been shaken?" also secretly contacted Xiang Kang Xiao'er to test whether the thief army could accept his surrender? ”

With this suspicion in his heart, Wang Li's face was inevitably a little cloudy, and he subconsciously secretly went to see Zhang Han's expression, Zhang Han saw Wang Li's appearance was inevitably extremely strange, and couldn't help asking: "General Wang, what's wrong with you?" ”

"No ......, nothing." Wang Li hurriedly shook his head, and said: "The sin general is just wondering, how could Xiang Kang Xiao'er send the letter to me by mistake to you, the general?" ”

"If nothing else, it should be that little boy was careless and accidentally sealed the letter to you into a letter to me." Zhang Han came to the same conclusion as Wang Li, and said casually: "Look, maybe Xiang Kang'er's messenger will contact you soon and send you the letter written to me." ”

"The general is wise, there is such a possibility." Wang Li replied very respectfully.

Next, in order to appease Wang Li, who had made mistakes before, Zhang Han persuaded Wang Li for a long time, saying that although he had truthfully reported Wang Li's previous defeat to the Great Qin Court, he also interceded for Wang Li, explaining that Wang Li was not allowed to take risks to fight a decisive battle at that time, and said that with Wang Li's ancestral merits, the Great Qin Court should not be too responsible for Wang Li's crimes, so that Wang Li could safely guard the flood river and atone for his crimes, and wait for the future to join forces with himself to break the anti-Qin coalition army, which is a shame.

Although Zhang Han's persuasion was out of a good intention, it turned out to be counterproductive, and after returning to his camp full of doubts, Wang Li didn't sleep for almost a night, and got up several times to look at the letter written by Xiang Kang to Zhang Han, although he also suspected that this was just Xiang Kang's shameless separation, but he didn't dare to guarantee that Zhang Han really didn't have a secret contact with Xiang Kang, and he couldn't make up his mind what to do with this letter.

Then, when the sky was light, Wang Xuan also had a rather vicious thought, and said secretly: "It's better to hand over this letter to the imperial court, firstly, to fulfill my duty and tell the truth to the imperial court, and secondly, I can also take the opportunity to protect myself, the emperor and the imperial court will definitely not dare to rest assured of Zhang Han after reading this letter, in order to prevent accidents, they will definitely not easily move me, they will only let me closely monitor Zhang Han for them, and I will definitely not be held accountable for my previous crimes." ”

Born of this idea, and knowing the harshness of the Qin law, as well as out of loyalty to the Great Qin court, Wang Li hesitated again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and wrote a seal, explaining the process and origin of the matter to the Great Qin court, together with the original text of Xiang Kang's letter, sent a fast horse to Xianyang, and at the same time Wang Li secretly detained the messenger sent by Xiang Kang as a witness, while allowing himself to stay in the Qin army camp cronies to secretly monitor Zhang Han, to prevent Zhang Han from really colluding with the anti-Qin coalition army and betraying the lord for glory.

Let's take a look at the situation of Wang Li's seal, he has been an important minister of the Qin court for generations, and succeeded Meng Tian after Hu Hai ascended the throne, gave Hu Hai and Zhao Gao a good idea of the Great Wall Corps, and won the trust of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao. As a result, Zhao Gao was of course taken aback when he saw it, although he was quite rational and suspected that this was Xiang Kang's intention, deliberately dividing the relationship between Zhang Han and Qin Ting, but he was still suspicious of Zhang Han - after all, Zhang Han was a sworn friend supported by Li Si, and Li Si was a political enemy who was killed by Zhao Gao, so of course Zhao Gao had to prevent Zhang Han from having the idea of avenging Li Si.

Then, as Xiang Kang expected, because Zhang Han was in power, Zhao Gao, who was quite reasonable, really did not dare to act rashly, in addition to ordering Wang Li to keep an eye on Zhang Han for himself, he also issued an edict for Hu Hai, and allocated all the newly built troops in Sanchuan County and Hanoi County to Wang Li's command to strengthen Wang Li's troops in case of emergency. On the other hand, while secretly looking for a candidate who could replace Zhang Han's army, he sent envoys to the front line, urging Zhang Han to enter the army as soon as possible to fight and exterminate the anti-Qin coalition army, which had seriously threatened the security of Guanzhong.

In fact, Zhang Han, who is still loyal to the Great Qin court, could not defeat the anti-Qin coalition army and was forced to enter the army, and the new army was allocated to Wang Li's command, and the troops could not be directly replenished. And what's worse is that Xiang Yu is not a fierce man who only knows how to do things blindly, after a period of stalemate, seeing that he could not find a chance to force the flood to trap Zhang Han, Xiang Yu adopted the advice of the old man Fan to decisively adjust his tactics, while temporarily retreating to the front line of Huanshui to confront the main force of the Qin army, while sending troops to attack Shangdang, cutting off the connection between Hanoi and Hedong and Jinbei, in addition, Xiang Kang made wind and rain on the southern front, and the remnants of Wei and Han also took the opportunity to attack the city and seize the land in the Central Plains to expand their territory. Hu Hai and Zhao Gao blamed Zhang Han for all this, forcing Zhang Han to be anxious and crying without tears.

With the rapid tightening of the northern and southern fronts, Zhao Gao even used the excuse of sharing the pressure for Zhang Han, took back Zhang Han's command of Wang Li's corps, and let Wang Li be in charge of the battlefields of the north and south flanks of Hanoi and Sanchuan, and at the same time urged Zhang Han to march into the army and fight a decisive battle with the anti-Qin coalition army. As a result, after receiving this edict, Zhang Han was so angry that he drew his sword and slashed the case, but also roared wildly: "Force! Force! They want the horses to run again, and they don't let the horses graze! Who wants to fight such a battle, anyway, I can't fight it anymore! ”

After roaring, Zhang Han couldn't help but add in his heart, "If you really force Lao Tzu to be in a hurry, Lao Tzu will simply go to be a thief army!" ”