"Young Marshal Xiang, since you can't make up your mind, then the little envoy will be the master for you!"

After shouting loudly, the middle-aged man who claimed to be the envoy of Wei choked and pulled out the sword at his waist, and went straight to Zhao Yi, the envoy of the Qin army, with a murderous face, and shouted again, "Violent Qin dog thief!" Death! ”

"Wei envoy calm down!" Zhou Zeng shouted anxiously.

"Stop him! Take! ”

Xiang Kang's tone was also very anxious, Xiang Kang's personal soldiers on both sides reacted quickly, and immediately stepped forward with their halberds, and quickly went to stop the Wei envoy from assassinating Zhao Yi, but the Wei envoy's movements were faster, and before Xiang Kang's personal soldiers stopped between him and Zhao Yi, they had already rushed to Zhao Yi's front first, and stabbed Zhao Yi in the chest with a loud shout, "Die!" ”

I never dreamed that the envoy of Wei would be so resolute, in front of Xiang Kang, the master of Pengcheng, he dared to assassinate himself, the unprepared Zhao Yi was of course killed by surprise, but fortunately, no matter how the soul was scattered, the natural reaction was still there, when the envoy of Wei stabbed with his sword, Zhao Yi still subconsciously flashed to the right, dodging the fatal sword of the envoy of Wei, but the sword of the envoy of Wei still stabbed Zhao Yi's left shoulder, and between the blood splashes, Zhao Yi also let out a howl like killing a pig, "Oops! ”

"Die!"

A sword stabbed off, the Wei envoy still refused to give up, drew the sword and wanted to stab Zhao Yi in the chest, but unfortunately Xiang Kang's personal soldiers had already blocked it, one of the personal soldiers used a halberd to fly the sword in the hand of the Wei envoy, and the other personal soldier hugged the Wei envoy from behind, and the other personal soldiers also rushed up, pressing the Wei envoy to the ground with all hands and feet, and the Wei envoy struggled and yelled, and the hall was in chaos.

"Admiral! Envoy! You're not dead, are you? Xiang Kang and Zhou Zeng rushed to Zhao Yi together, anxiously checking Zhao Yi's injuries, and yelled even more: "Quick! Fast! Go to the medics! The medical staff came to heal the wounds of the envoy! ”

Or at this time, Zhao Yicai, who had been scared away by the three souls, finally came back to his senses, and first saw that the part of his injury was not fatal, and then Zhao Yicai asked Xiang Kang with a pale face: "Young marshal, why are you like this here?" How can a foreign messenger dare to kill someone with a sword in front of you? ”

"The envoy forgives the sins, I didn't expect this Wei envoy to have such great courage to dare to assassinate you in front of me." Xiang Kang pleaded guiltily and said: "It is a crime to be under the lower to protect the superior envoy poorly, and let the superior envoy be injured." Please rest assured, the envoy will definitely give you an explanation about this matter! ”

"Young Marshal Xiang, don't be verbose with this tyrannical Qin envoy, kill him with one sword!" The envoy of Wei who was pressed to the ground struggled and shouted: "Don't worry, our King of Wei has already gathered troops and horses to march to Guanzhong, as long as you hold off the tyrant Qin army here for a while, our Wei army can enter Guanzhong and kill the tyrant Hu Hai!" As long as you resist the Tyrannical Qin army for a period of time, and our army enters the pass, the Tyrannical Qin army will definitely have to retreat! ”

"Shut up!" Xiang Kang shouted angrily, and said angrily: "Wei Tuo, Young Marshal Ben respects you as the envoy of Wei State, and treats you politely, if you don't thank Young Marshal Ben, you dare to assassinate Young Marshal Ben's guests in front of Young Marshal Ben!" Tie him up! ”

Xiang Kang personally sang a promise, and hurriedly brought a rope to tie up the Wei envoy, and the Wei envoy struggled and roared, shouting: "Let go of me!" Let me go! Surname, if you are smart, let me go immediately, and then slaughter the Tyrant Qin envoy with one sword! Don't think that if you surrender to the Tyrannical Qin army, the Tyrannical Qin army will spare your life! Don't forget, after you are Xiang Yan, the famous general of Chu State, it was you who raised the banner of anti-Qin righteousness for the first time, killed countless Tyrant Qin officers and soldiers, surrendered Tyrant Qin, and Tyrant Qin will never let you go! Definitely won't let you go! ”

Roaring, the envoy of Wei also shouted in despair: "Only by joining forces with our King Wei is your only way to live!" As long as you hold off the tyrant Qin army for a while, our Wei army can take the opportunity to enter Guanzhong, break through Xianyang, and kill the tyrant Hu Hai! Don't be fooled! Don't be confused! ”

Listening to the screams of the envoy of Wei, Xiang Kang's face was gloomy, and his expression was obviously a little hesitant, but in the end he shouted: "Shut his mouth, escort him down, and settle accounts with him later!" ”

According to Xiang Kang's instructions, the Wei envoy was gagged and dragged down, and at the same time, the medical workers also hurried to treat Zhao Yi's injuries, fortunately, the Wei envoy's sword did not stab the fatal point, although Zhao Yi's bleeding was many, but there was not much danger, after some rapid treatment by the medical workers, Zhao Yi's blood was quickly stopped, and the wound was quickly bandaged and perfected. Xiang Kang didn't dare to rest assured, in addition to letting people take Zhao Yi to the backyard where he lived to take care of him, he also asked the medical staff to guard Zhao Yi's side at all times to prevent Zhao Yi's injuries from suddenly deteriorating.

In the evening, Xiang Kang personally came to visit Zhao Yi, first inquired about Zhao Yi's physical condition, and then saluted Zhao Yi to ask for guilt, and said in a very sincere tone: "The envoy forgives the sin, I didn't expect that in front of you, you would also be injured by your noble body, and it is really difficult to forgive his sin." But you can swear to the heavens that you have absolutely no intention of deliberately conniving at the Wei envoy to assassinate you, please make sure that the envoy will be aware of General Zhang Han, and General Zhang Ping, there is really no intention to hurt their envoy. ”

Knowing that if it wasn't for Xiang Kang's personal soldiers to stop him in time, his life would have been given away today, Zhao Yi of course also believed Xiang Kang's words, not only did not accuse Xiang Kang of not protecting him well, but on the contrary, he comforted Xiang Kang and said that he had no intention of blaming. Zhao Yi politely excused himself and asked again: "Young Marshal Xiang, that envoy of the Wei State, what are you going to do?" ”

"I've already driven him out of Pengcheng." Xiang Kang replied, and said: "Please rest assured, the envoy did not conclude any covenant with him, and wrote a letter of inquiry for him to bring to Wei Qi, and let Wei Zhi deal with him as an impudent messenger, if Wei Ji does not give an explanation in the next one, he will definitely not be able to spare him lightly!" ”

He was very dissatisfied that Xiang Kang did not kill the envoy of Wei who hurt him, but in the enemy camp, his life was hanging in the hands of others, and Zhao Yi, who knew how to advance and retreat, had no choice but to endure his anger and take the opportunity to persuade Xiang Kang to surrender to the Qin army as soon as possible, but Xiang Kang was unsure of this determination, and repeatedly excused himself that he needed time to think about it, and never gave Zhao Yi an accurate answer. In the end, Xiang Kang also semi-forced Zhao Yi to accept his apology gift, and then said goodbye and left, so that Zhao Yi could rest in peace.

The next day was close to noon, Xiang Kang came to visit Zhao Yi's injury again, and after learning that Zhao Yi's injury was stable and did not deteriorate, Xiang Kang first breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately took out a sealed letter, and said with a nervous expression: "Envoy, I just received the news that your forward is only thirty miles away from Pengcheng, this is a letter to General Zhang Ping, and please go out of the city to contact your army now, please don't rush to attack for the time being, so as to avoid hurting the peace, I also asked the envoy to hand over the letter to General Zhang Ping, and asked General Zhang Ping to make a decision. ”

What he did was to run errands back and forth, Xiang Kang's request Zhao Yi of course could not refuse, at the moment Zhao Yi could only get up with an injury, walked out of the county temple with the support of Xiang Kang's own soldiers, boarded the carriage he brought before, and immediately went out of the west of the city to contact the Qin army, and successfully met the vanguard of the Qin army less than twenty miles west of Pengcheng. Then, under the guidance of the vanguard of the Qin army, he soon met the main force of the Qin army led by Zhang Ping and met with Zhang Ping.

Not to mention, seeing Zhao Yi returning with an injury, Zhang Ping was really taken aback, and once thought that it was Xiang Kang's poisonous hand, and the young marshal army was going to fight with him to the end this time. However, after Zhao Yi carefully introduced the original situation, Zhang Ping immediately became furious and roared: "Wei blames the traitor! What a boldness, even if the envoy dares to kill our envoy, he even dares to take advantage of the weakness to attack Guanzhong and sneak attack our rear! If you don't kill this rebel in the future, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in the heart of this general! ”

"General Zhang, it's best to report this matter to the general quickly, and ask the general to take precautions." Zhao Yi suggested, and said: "Although Xiang Kang's traitor said that he did not conclude an alliance with Wei Blame, only he himself knows what he did, if we fall for him and Wei Blame, only focus on him and neglect to guard against Wei Blame, and give Wei Blame a chance to take advantage of it, then we will be in big trouble." ”

Zhang Ping nodded, but he was not in a hurry to immediately write to Zhang Han to tell him about his urgency, but quickly opened Xiang Kang's letter to watch the contents, and what made Zhang Ping sneer was that Xiang Kang in the letter in addition to whimsically repeatedly begging Zhang Ping not to rush to attack, he also proposed that he hoped to agree on a time and place with Zhang Ping, and each only brought a few guards to negotiate in person. Then Zhang Ping did not hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Command the whole army, speed up the advance, be sure to rush to Pengcheng before the second quarter of the Shen hour, and buy us time to set up camp." ”

According to Zhang Ping's request, the main force of the Qin army immediately accelerated its advance, and rushed to the western suburbs of Pengcheng more than ten miles before the second quarter of the Shen time, and set up camp in the north by Gushui.

In fact, the Qin army scouts did this to go through the motions, Pengcheng is located in the plain, there are no surrounding mountains and valleys to bury ambushes, only some woods are mostly pitifully small, even if there are ambushes, there are not many people to hide, and they can't play any role. However, what no one expected was that when the Qin army scouts were doing their business, there was really a little unexpected gain - two knights from the north suddenly appeared in front of the Qin army scouts, and when the Qin army scouts stepped forward to stop them, the two knights not only did not stop to be inspected, but on the contrary, they also galloped wildly and rushed directly to the direction of the ferry at the north gate of Pengcheng.

At this time, horses are precious, and the people who come on horseback are already conspicuous, and after seeing that they are fleeing directly to Pengcheng, the Qin army scouts of course immediately chased with all their might, but unfortunately the two people's riding skills are quite good, and they have very much experience in escaping, so they got rid of the pursuit of the Qin army scouts, and escaped to the north gate ferry of Pengcheng, which is still controlled by the young marshal army, and obtained the ferry help of the young marshal army, and fled into Pengcheng under the nose of the Qin army scouts.

Fortunately, the Qin army scouts did not work in vain, the two knights slapped their horses and galloped wildly, just to escape, and accidentally dropped the package on the road, the Qin army scouts picked up the package and opened it, and found that in addition to some ordinary daily things, there was actually a letter written by Liu Ji, the leader of another anti-Qin rebel army, to Xiang Kang, and the Qin army scouts immediately found a treasure, and quickly sent the letter back to the camp to ask Zhang Ping for credit.

Let's take a look at the situation of the two messengers first, because they claimed to have been ordered by Liu Laosan to deliver a letter to Xiang Kang, and after crossing the river, of course, they were quickly sent to Xiang Kang. When Xiang Kang looked at the person again, he immediately recognized that one of the two Liu Laosan's messengers was Zhou Ke, a guest who had a relationship with him in Liuxian County, and then Xiang Kang did not hesitate, while hurriedly asking people to prepare food and drink, he asked Zhou Ke with a smile: "Why is Mr. Zhou here?" Did Pei Gong ask you to come? ”

"Returning to the young marshal, that's exactly the case." Zhou Ke replied truthfully, and said: "Pei Gong also asked the villain to bring you a handwritten letter, but the villain was careless just now, and accidentally dropped the letter on the road, if nothing else, the letter should have been picked up by the scouts of the Tyrannical Qin army." ”

"Really? Does it matter what the letter is? Xiang Kang asked.

"It's very important, so to speak." Zhou Ke showed a mysterious smile and said with a smile: "But please rest assured, that urgent letter was not actually written to you, but to Zhang Ping, the chief general of the Tyrannical Qin army. ”

"What do you mean, sir?" Xiang Kang was really confused this time.

"The young marshal forgives the sin, this matter has to be started from the beginning." Zhou Ke cleared his throat, and then said: "Our Pei Gong received the news, I heard that after the general of the Tyrant Qin, Zhang Han, sent a partial division to kill Pengcheng, although he immediately began to prepare to go south to reinforce the young marshal's army, but our Pei Gong was very worried, worried that even if the young marshal you blocked the partial division of the Tyrant Qin, you would not be able to stop the main force of the Tyrant Qin army, and the main force of the Tyrannical Qin was active in Chenjun, which was always a huge threat to you and us, so Pei Gong thought hard and meditated, and took the liberty of arranging a plan for the young marshal to remove the blame. ”

"Blame Wei?" Xiang Kang's eyes widened, and Zhou Zeng and Old Man Fan next to him were also dumbfounded.

"Yes, blame Wei!" Zhou Cao nodded vigorously, and said: "Wei Qi and Zhou Fu were unkind and unjust, they fought in the same room against other anti-Qin rebels, and they supported the troops to protect themselves when the main force of the Tyrannical Qin sent troops outside the pass, and sat back and watched Zhang Chu, who had great kindness to them, be destroyed by the Tyrannical Qin army, and he was ruthless and unrighteous to the extreme. Therefore, Pei Gong deliberately wrote a letter, claiming in the letter that he had reconciled with Wei and was ready to join forces with the young marshal to drag down the tyrannical Qin army and create an opportunity for Wei to enter the west of the pass. He also said that Wei Qi was fighting in Wei, and just waited for the main force of the violent Qin to enter Pengcheng in the west, and immediately took the opportunity to enter Guanzhong and go straight to Xianyang! ”

After proudly finishing the content of Liu Laosan's letter, Zhou Ke said even more proudly: "Then Pei Gong sent the villain to slowly go south, and after hearing that the Tyrannical Qin army arrived in Pengcheng, he came over quickly, deliberately let the Tyrant Qin scouts bump into him on the road, and pretended to be in a panic and deliberately left his letter behind. Then as long as the Tyrannical Qin scout delivers this letter to Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping will definitely tell Zhang Handipfu the news, and Zhang Handipfu will most likely take the main force to the north, first go to find trouble with Wei, and you can also calmly deal with the partial division of the Tyrannical Qin army. ”

The lobby was silent, Xiang Kang and Zhou Zeng looked at each other, they didn't dare to imagine that there was such a coincidence in this world, the young marshal army was here to unscrupulously provoke Zhang Han's main force to go north to find Wei Qi's trouble, in order to reduce the pressure on the army, Liu Laosan actually came to such a move, and also guided Zhang Han's firepower to Wei Ji's body.

In the end, it was Old Man Fan who broke the calm and asked Xiang Kang very strangely: "Young Marshal Xiang, you don't look like Liu Ji at all?" Why do you act in such a way that you are not only very similar, but also as if you were brothers? ”

Xiang Kangguan'er, and then said very heartily: "What Fan Gong said is very true, in this regard, I am indeed in the same vein as Pei Gong. ”

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At the same time, Liu Laosan's handwritten letter has also been sent to Zhang Ping, and as a result, Wei Ji and his Wei army are of course unlucky, Xiang Kang made people pretend to be Wei Envoy despicable and framed, and then Liu Laosan's shameless planting, Zhang Ping of course hated Wei Ji to the extreme! In addition to scolding, Zhang Ping no longer had any hesitation, and immediately wrote down these situations into letters, and sent a fast horse back to Chen County, so that his brother Zhang Han knew that Wei Ji was preparing to sneak attack Guanzhong's dirty plan!

All the cities along the way have been recaptured by the Qin army, and the contact between Zhang Ping and Zhang Han has been relatively easy, and Zhang Ping's letter only took more than three days to successfully return to Chen County from the front line of Pengcheng, and was presented to Zhang Han who was resting in Chen County with the main force. After learning of these circumstances, Zhang Han was of course shocked and angry, and subconsciously gave birth to the idea of immediately sending troops north to give priority to exterminating Wei and the Wei army.

Of course, it is not so easy for Zhang Han to make up his mind, the partial division is already too far away from the main force, and if the main force goes north to Weidi, if the remote division that is farther away encounters any danger, it will definitely be more difficult for the main force to rescue in time. However, it is okay for Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, the two despicable villains, to ensure that Guanzhong can no longer be threatened is Zhang Han's current first priority, considering that after the main force of the army entered Pengcheng in the east, if Wei Zhen really took the opportunity to send troops to attack Guanzhong, he would definitely not be able to explain to Qin II and Zhao Gao, and if he was not careful, he might lose his official position, or even fall to the ground, so after repeated thinking and research, Zhang Han gradually tended to give priority to sending troops to Weidi.

In the end, there were two reasons that prompted Zhang Han to make up his mind, one is the relevant information provided by the young marshal army in Dangjun, the last time the young marshal army went west to Dangjun, it was quite unsmooth for various reasons, and even exposed the weakness of the young marshal army is still not good at fighting formation battles and tough battles, which once made Xiang Kang very disappointed, but now it is a blessing in disguise, through such intelligence analysis, Zhang Han of course feels that the young marshal army is actually not difficult to deal with, just relying on Zhang Ping's partial division, there is every hope that Xiang Kang will be killed directly and take Pengcheng, even if it is not conquered for a long time, There is also an absolute certainty that the whole body will retreat, and there is no need to worry too much about the situation of the partial teacher.

The second is the urging from Xianyang, after Zhang Han sent troops outside the Guan, Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, who were anxious to quell the rebellion, sent people to force Zhang Han to quell the anti-thieves outside the Guanwai as soon as possible, although Zhang Han knew very well that it could not be done overnight if he wanted to achieve this goal, and he also tried to report the actual situation outside the Guanxi to Xianyang, and asked Hu Hai and Zhao Gao to give themselves a little more time. But in such a situation, Zhang Han certainly couldn't allow other anti-Qin rebels to pose a threat to Guanzhong - otherwise, how could Zhang Han explain to Hu Hai and Zhao Gao?

It is precisely because of the existence of these two objective reasons that after thinking about it, for the sake of prudence, Zhang Han still made up his mind to give priority to dealing with Wei, and then while raising troops to the north to find Wei Qi and Zhou Fu's troubles, he sent an envoy to contact Zhang Ping, explaining that Zhang Ping must be cautious in military affairs, Pengcheng can fight if he can fight down, and it doesn't matter if he can't beat it, he can temporarily retreat and protect himself, and wait for himself to kill Wei Ji, and then let the main force of the Qin army rely on the Gushui channel that can transport grain from Aocang to Pengcheng to the east, Come to find Xiang Kang, a despicable villain who is swaying at both ends of the first rat, to take revenge and settle accounts.

At the end of the letter to Zhang Ping, Zhang Han did not forget to remind Zhang Ping, asking Zhang Ping not to pin too much hope of breaking the enemy on Xiang Kang's initiative to surrender, and let Zhang Ping give priority to taking the formation battle that the young marshal army is not good at to break the enemy.