I'm not afraid that hooligans can do martial arts, I'm afraid that hooligans are educated, Xiang Yu probably has a thousand nightmares and won't dream that the old man of the Han army, Li Shiqi, who he shamelessly detained on the battlefield of Sanchuan, will become an extremely terrifying and dangerous enemy for him, and its horror and danger are even far more than Peng Yue, who was born at odds with Xiang Yu to a large extent, as well as Feng Zhong, the shameless traitor of the Western Chu Army, and the young mouse Yongya, who has worshipped Xiang Kang as an idol since the beginning.

At the beginning, the Western Chu army, which had become a turtle in the urn, proposed to exchange Xiang Kang's wife and children for the Han army to make way for them to be released, in fact, Peng Yue didn't want to agree at all, but he was worried that the Western Chu army dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, which was really bad for Xiang Kang's wife and children, and even escorted Xiang Kang's wife and children to the front of the battle as a shield, forcing the Han army to give way and let go, but he didn't dare to categorically refuse, and finally Li Shiqi, who had just been released from prison, found a huge loophole in the negotiation conditions of the Western Chu army, and offered a plan for Peng Yue to set up a bureau to rescue Xiang Kang's wife and children. It also succeeded in getting most of the Western Chu officials to surrender to the Han army on their own initiative, and smashed the political operation center of the rear of the Western Chu army in one fell swoop.

Li Shiqi's purpose is not only this, after the treacherous plan succeeded, Li Shiqi took advantage of the opportunity to have dinner together and said to Peng Yue and Feng Zhongjin: "General Peng, General Feng, take advantage of our current opportunity, why don't we re-establish a king of Chu in Pengcheng." ”

With a poof, Feng Zhong, who was mediocre in politics, directly squirted out a mouthful of rice, and almost choked into his trachea, coughing and saying in surprise: "Mr. Li, what are you talking about, re-establishing a king of Chu?" You're not kidding, are you? For no reason, what are we going to do with the re-establishment of a Chu king? ”

"Of course the old man is not joking." Li Shiqi's expression was solemn, and he said: "We have re-established a king of Chu, and Chu will immediately be one country and two lords, one day and two days, it is difficult not to think of a complete chaos, so that the situation on the battlefield in the Central Plains can become more favorable to our Han king, Xiang Yu's horseman must also immediately divide the heavy troops to return to the rear to quell the rebellion, and even personally lead the army back to Pengcheng to stabilize the situation, when the time comes, we can not only share the huge pressure for the Han king, but even create a counteroffensive fighter for our Han king, Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Western Chu army to divide its troops or withdraw completely, it counterattacked in a big way, and completely reversed the passive situation of our Han King on the Xingyang battlefield. ”

"In addition, if we re-establish a King of Chu, we can also receive three effects immediately." Li Shiqi added: "First, we can rebuild the court of the Chu king, and we can legally and reasonably buy the hearts of the people in Chu and control the military and people in Chu; Second, we can make the new king of Chu declare Xiang Yu, the puppet king of Western Chu, a rebel, and call on the soldiers and civilians of Chu to rise up against him, so that Xiang Yu is morally inferior; The third is to justifiably command the local counties and counties of Chu, weaken Xiang Yupifu's control over the local areas of Chu, and isolate him even more. ”

"These three points are all beneficial to our Han King." Li Shiqi continued: "And Jing Jia, who has surrendered to us at present, is still a descendant of the orthodox Chu royal family, and is far more qualified to inherit the throne of Chu than Xiang Yu. In addition, most of the Western Chu officials also surrendered to us, and we used them as a team to rebuild the Chu court, and it was easier to win the support of the local counties of the Chu State. ”

Feng Zhong's political ability is indeed average, and although he felt justified after listening to Li Shiqi's analysis, he was still a little worried, and hurriedly asked, "Then what if our Han King doesn't agree?" We have established the king of Chu without his consent, which seems to be a suspicion of trespassing? ”

"King Han is a smart man, and he won't fail to understand that we are doing this for his sake." Li Shiqi replied: "As long as we support the new king of Chu, let the new king of Chu immediately submit to our king of Han and respect our king of Han as the master, and the king of Han will definitely not say anything." ”

Feng Zhong was still a little timid, and he didn't dare to make such a major decision without Xiang Kang's consent, so he could only turn his attention to Peng Yue, but Peng Yue's political ability was much stronger than Feng Zhong's, and he just thought about it for a moment and asked: "Old Mr. Li, what if the Western Chu thief army counterattacks on a large scale and we can't resist it?" ”

"If we don't support the new King of Chu, we will be sure that we will be able to block the large-scale counterattack of the Western Chu thief army?" Li Shiqi smiled and asked, and said: "Since we are not sure that we can stop it, then we will give priority to stirring up the chaos of Chu as much as possible, and when the Western Chu thief army comes back, we can block it, and if we can't stop it, we will immediately use the banner of moving the capital, and retreat with the army, leaving a mess for Xiang Yu's puppet to clean up."

Peng Yue weighed it again and again, nodded and said: "It makes sense, anyway, with our strength, we will definitely not be able to stop the Western Chu thief army from counterattacking, since this is the case, then we will take advantage of the opportunity to completely mess up the land of Chu first, and then we can support a new king of Chu, but we must hold the military power tightly in our hands, and we must not hand it over to those Western Chu officials who surrendered." ”

"Of course." Li Shiqi replied with a smile: "After we have established the new queen of Chu, we will ask General Peng Yue to serve as the general of the new Chu State and the Shangzhu State, and ask General Feng Zhong to be the Grand Sima of the New Chu State, and the two of you will jointly take charge of the military power of the Chu State, and the two of you will also jointly decide the major affairs of the court." ”

Peng Yue's eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded in agreement, but Feng Zhong was still timid and afraid, and hesitated for a moment before saying: "I'd better be exempted, there are too many young marshals and old men in my army, and they are all looking forward to returning to serve under the Han King's account, and I have promised to take them back to the Han King's account, if General Peng doesn't mind, please let my army continue to fight the banner of the Han army, and you will be in charge of the military power of the Chu State and the affairs of the court." ”

After that, Feng Zhong also hurriedly added, "Of course, before joining forces with our Han King, I will also continue to obey General Peng's command. ”

Seeing that Feng Zhong insisted, Peng Yue was not reluctant, and Peng Yue quickly made up his mind with Li Shiqi at the moment, and the next day he put the original Chu State clan Jingjia on the throne of Chu, and once again raised the banner of Chu State.

Then, at the request of Peng Yue, Li Shiqi and others, after Jing Jia, who finally got his wish, hurriedly became king, the first edict issued was to proclaim himself to Xiang Kang and take the initiative to accept Xiang Kang's command; The second edict denounced Xiang Yu's crime of killing Emperor Xiong Xin of Chuyi, officially designated Xiang Yu as an anti-national and rebel minister, and called on the military and people of Chu to rise up a crusade; The third edict was issued together with the second edict, requiring the counties and counties of Chu to change to the banner of the state of Chu, to accept the edict of the royal court of Jingchu instead, and at the same time to stop all supplies of money, food, and military supplies to the Western Chu army.

In addition, of course, Peng Yue had to take advantage of the large population in Pengcheng and its surroundings to desperately recruit troops, use the weapons left by the Western Chu court to equip new soldiers, desperately expand the strength of his army, and soon expanded his army to 30,000.

Peng Yue, Li Shiqi and others re-established a new king of Chu, of course, the rear of Western Chu was suddenly in chaos, resulting in the local counties of Western Chu not knowing who to obey the command, and indeed some local counties and counties of Western Chu saw the wind and steered, and immediately gave up the banner of Western Chu to re-attack the banner of Chu, and many counties and counties of Chu that had long been overwhelmed took the opportunity to temporarily stop the supply of grain and grass in front of Western Chu, and without the organization and recruitment of the Western Chu court, the grain and grass transfer work of the Western Chu army was also completely paralyzed. There is no way to provide an endless supply of grain and grass for the main force of the Western Chu Army.

But Peng Yue and Li Shiqi did this and completely stabbed the hornet's nest, just received the news of the fall of Pengcheng and the establishment of another king of Chu by Peng Yue's army, and the Zeng Wen Department of the Western Chu Army, which had been ordered to go east to protect the grain road, immediately marched south from the Juyeze battlefield, and came to Pengcheng to settle accounts with Peng Yue's army. At the same time, Xiang and Xiang Sheng also desperately contacted local officials in Western Chu who were still loyal to Xiang Yu, and organized an army to prepare for a counterattack.

The most fierce reaction was of course Xiang Yu himself, when he received the bad news from Pengcheng, Xiang Yu was drinking in the tiger tent, but the messenger who came from the rear didn't have time to finish all the words, and the case in front of Xiang Yu flew into the air, and then immediately after, Xiang Yu's roar also directly shocked the ears of everyone present, "Peng Yue Pifu!" Feng Zhong Pifu! If this king doesn't break your corpses into thousands of pieces, you will be crushed and ashes scattered! This king swears not to be a man————! ”

Roaring, Xiang Yu, who was still angry, also pulled out the sword at his waist, waved and chopped in the Chinese military tent, chopping everything he saw to pieces, and frightened the guard officials in the tent all escaped from the Chinese army tent with rolling and crawling, for fear that he would escape slowly, and was used as a punching bag by Xiang Yu, chopped into meat sauce on the spot!

The bad news of Pengcheng also stunned the entire decision-making level of the Western Chu army, and when they learned that Pengcheng was lost and Peng Yue and others supported Jingjia to succeed to the throne of Chu, the civil and military forces of Western Chu were struck by lightning, and some people even said in their hearts: "Is our Western Chu about to end?" ”

Old man Fan was relatively calm, and after forcibly forcing himself to settle down and think for a while, Old Man Fan immediately said: "King, the only way to do this is now, we have no other choice but to quickly withdraw from the Xingyang battlefield, free up our hands to quell the rebellion in the rear, and after stabilizing the situation in our rear, we will then consider how to defeat the Han thieves." ”

"Don't retreat!" Kui Che hurriedly said: "If we all withdraw our troops and return to China to quell the rebellion, Xiang Kang's traitors will definitely take the opportunity to fight back in an all-round way, and even if we don't have to be afraid of their pursuit at that time, as long as we are entangled by him, we have no way to return to Pengcheng with all our strength, it will be enough to make us uncomfortable." ”

"Listen to the old man!" Old man Fan rudely interrupted Kui Che, and said very angrily: "Of course we can't all withdraw to Pengcheng, we can only bring our main force back to Puyang first, and then divide the army into two, half of the army will stay in Puyang, and don't give the Han thieves the opportunity to take the opportunity to enter the hinterland of our Western Chu, and half of the army will return to Pengcheng to quell the rebellion, and when our rear rebellion is quelled, we can return to Puyang to join our rear army, and maybe we can win the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Han thieves." ”

"Brilliant idea." Kuaiche changed his tone and praised: "Leaving half of the army to garrison Puyang and choke the throat of the Han thieves marching into our hinterland of Western Chu from Chidao, which can not only allow the other half of our army to return to China to quell the rebellion with peace of mind, but also continue to threaten Sanchuan Aocang, so that the Han thieves will not dare to march eastward from Dangjun." In addition, we can also ensure contact with the army on the Northern Front and keep abreast of the development of the war on the Northern Front. ”

Of course, Kuaicher's praise can't be counted, everything must be decided by Xiang Yu, but after Xiang Yu carefully calculated for a while, he quickly said: "Why do you have to withdraw all to Puyang?" Why can't we let half of our army be stationed directly on the Xingyang battlefield and directly contain the main force of the Han thieves? ”

"King, unless you personally stay on the Xingyang battlefield, none of our generals can be Xiang Kang's opponent of the traitor." Old man Fan replied helplessly, and said: "And we must also withdraw to Puyang to re-fortify, because our Hanoi partial division has been completely annihilated, and the friendly army of Zhao State has been pinned down in Hengshan County by the Han thief's partial division, and the Han thief's Hanoi partial division has no worries, if they seize the opportunity and take the opportunity to rush to Baimajin with all their might, and General Zhonggong can't resist it, then our main force in Western Chu will be completely cut into two sections by the Han thieves." ”

History has indeed changed a lot, in history, because there is no old man Fan beside him to guide the maze, and Master Xiang Boxiang is too powerful, he gives Xiang Yu bad ideas every day, in history, when Xiang Yu was in an emergency in the rear, he threw down the front-line army and returned directly to the rear to quell the rebellion, giving Liu Laosan the opportunity to take the opportunity to counterattack. The current situation is completely different, first, he knows very well how vicious and cunning his scum cousin is, and second, Master Xiang, who has no real power, closed his mouth again and again, and did not jump out to help, Xiang Yu hesitated, but still nodded reluctantly, and said: "Then let's do it, first withdraw to Puyang and re-fortify." ”

Old Man Fan and Kui Che breathed a sigh of relief together, and then Old Man Fan hurriedly said: "King, when you retreat, you must personally lead the army to the rear of the palace to deter the thief army, only in this way will Xiang Kang's traitor not dare to pursue with all his strength, and our main force will be sure to smoothly withdraw to Puyang and re-arm." ”

Xiang Yu of course likes to listen to such words, and immediately agreed, and the decision-making level of the Western Chu Army hurriedly discussed the retreat plan, and sent Huan Chu to lead an army to cross the chasm first, establish a position to protect the ferry, and launch a comprehensive river crossing the next day, carry all the grain and grass and military supplies across the river, and deploy heavy troops to protect it, Xiang Yu personally led the 30,000 elite halls of the Western Chu army, or after the army and various military supplies were all transported across the river, Xiang Yu finally crossed the river and led the main force of the Western Chu army to slowly retreat to the Puyang battlefield along the gallop road.

As expected by Old Man Fan, because Xiang Yu personally led the army to cover the retreat of the whole army, afraid of the fierce and brave martial arts of the overlord's cousin, Xiang Kang really didn't dare to send an army to pursue - don't blame Xiang Kang for being timid, at this time, the Han army really didn't have any confidence that it could beat the main force of the Western Chu army. Coupled with the blockage of the road, he had not yet had time to receive the news from Pengcheng, afraid that this was the Western Chu army's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, Xiang Kang of course did not dare to play big tricks, just sent scouts to make every effort to find out the news, to find out the reason for the main force of the Western Chu army to break through and withdraw troops, and also to grasp the movements of the Western Chu army, and patiently wait for new changes in the enemy situation.

Xiang Kang's helpless move also gave the Western Chu army a chance to smoothly withdraw to Puyang to re-arm, six days later, the current number of troops of about 220,000 Western Chu Army, smoothly withdrew to the Puyang area, first and stationed in Baima The Western Chu Army finally joined forces with more than 20,000 people, and then took the initiative to abandon the Baima ferry far away from Puyang, and jointly withdrew to Puyang, and then Xiang Yu did not stop, and immediately held a meeting, announcing that Cao Ji, who was his most trusted in military affairs, led an army of 120,000 troops to garrison Puyang, He personally led another 120,000 troops back to Pengcheng to quell the rebellion.

"Cao Sima, don't remember." Xiang Yu said uneasily: "After this king leaves, if the Han thief army comes to attack on a large scale, you can't risk sending troops to fight a decisive battle anyway, you can only defend the camp and the city, so that the Han thieves have no way to bypass Puyang and march east." Our current grain and grass are enough for you for two months, at most a month, I will definitely put down the rebellion, and come back with the army to join you, and then we will not have to fear anything! ”

"And." Xiang Yu hurriedly added: "If my traitor brother leads the main force of the Han thief from Dangjun to the hinterland of Western Chu, you must confirm that he has gone far before you can take the opportunity to send troops to attack Sanchuan Aocang, you must not be greedy for merit, fall for the trick of the Han thief to divert the tiger from the mountain, my traitor cousin is too cunning, you are not his opponent." As for him sending some partial divisions into the hinterland of our Dangjun, don't pay attention to him, I will send troops to clean up. ”

Cao Ji hurriedly hugged his fists and agreed, swearing that he would keep in mind Xiang Yu's advice, but Old Man Fan still refused to rest assured, and took the initiative to ask: "King, let the old minister stay to assist Cao Sima, the old minister is familiar with Xiang Kang's nature as a traitor, no matter what tricks he plays, the old minister is sure to deal with it." ”

Xiang Yu was a little moved, but there were too few talents around Xiang Yu who were proficient in both military and government affairs, and returning to Pengcheng to quell the rebellion would definitely involve a series of internal affairs issues such as pacifying the people and rebuilding the bureaucratic system, so Xiang Yu still shook his head and said: "Father, you have to go back with this king, there are still a lot of things in Pengcheng that you can't help me deal with, and you are indispensable to this king." ”

Old man Fan nodded helplessly, but said again: "King, how about leaving Dr. Kuaiche to Cao Sima, Doctor Kuai is a fine person, and he has a lot of opinions when he sees things, and he will definitely be able to help Cao Sima a lot." ”

Xiang Yu didn't refuse again this time, and immediately agreed, and Old Man Fan turned to Cao Ji and said: "Cao Sima, when you encounter something, discuss it with Doctor Kuai, and Henan Situ Li Zuoche is also a wise man who can make good decisions, if you have any problems, you might as well listen to his opinion." ”

Cao Ji agreed with a smile, but muttered in his heart: "Father, even if the king looks down on me, why are you so worried about me?" When something happens, you even want me to listen to the opinions of the yellow-haired boy Kuaiche? And that Li Zuoche, if he had real ability, the Henan army would be wiped out by the Han thieves, and even the land and city would be lost? ”

On Xiang Kang's side, after confirming that Xiang Yu led an army of 120,000 to leave Puyang, Xiang Kang finally received an urgent report from Peng Yue sent people to take the road to Dangjun, as well as a letter of surrender sent by Jingjia, the new king of Chu, and knew about the earth-shaking changes that had taken place in Pengcheng. Needless to say, of course, there was no one in the Han army who was not cheering, celebrating the miracle created by Peng Yuejun and Feng Zhongjun, and even Zhang Liang, because Peng Yuejun and Feng Zhongjun rescued his old master Han Cheng, was so excited that he burst into tears, and cried bitterly in front of Xiang Kang and others for the first time.

Of course, Xiang Kang was also excited, but after the excitement, Xiang Kang's expression was unexpectedly a little unkind, Chen Ping was a roundworm in Xiang Kang's stomach, guessing the reason why Xiang Kang was not particularly happy, he found an opportunity to persuade Xiang Kang in a low voice: "King, Peng Yue, they did not have your consent to support Jingjia as the new king of Chu, it is indeed a bit excessive, but in terms of the effect of chaos against the enemy, their approach is also the most correct way, so don't worry too much about it." ”

Xiang Kang nodded a little reluctantly, and also persuaded himself in his heart: "Don't be too harsh, after all, people in this era have the limitations of this era, so can you know the dangerous consequences of the sub-sealing system?" Peng Yue is not an old man I brought out, it is not surprising that he is a little selfish, in general, he still has more merit than fault, the big deal is like Liu Laosan, first unify the world, and then slowly put down the rebellion is not too late. ”

At this time, the Han army and the civil and military forces couldn't wait to ask: "King, what should we do next?" Do you want to send troops to Puyang immediately and completely annihilate the Western Chu thief army in Puyang first? ”

"Do you need to ask?" Xiang Kang grinned and said, "Such a good opportunity is in front of us, if we don't seize it quickly, wouldn't we be too sorry for the people of China who are in a hurry to live a peaceful life?" Send troops immediately and march east to Puyang! ”