Those who save themselves, God will save them.

If it weren't for Han Xin's quick opportunity to take down the traitor Liu Er of the Nanyang Army as soon as he found out that something was wrong, and he couldn't say it clearly without meeting and talking to him alone, there are still several witnesses to prove this, then even Liu Laosan and Kui Che couldn't save Han Xin, and Xiang Yu, who was brutal and suspicious and liked to act impulsively, would definitely kill Han Xin on the spot without saying a word, just like he killed Tian An and Xiong Xin at the beginning!

Thanks to Han Xin's reaction at the first time, not only did he have a testimony but also immediately escorted the traitor Liu Er to Xiang Yu for a fateful death, Liu Laosan and Kui Che and others had the opportunity to defend Han Xin, and immediately pointed out to Xiang Yu that this was just Xiang Kang's shameless framing and despicable planting, the purpose was to lure Xiang Yu to kill Han Xin, Han Xin was just an innocent and pitiful victim - otherwise, how could Han Xin take the initiative to take Liu Er, it should be to quietly understand Liu Er's intentions in private.

It is precisely because of this key logic, coupled with the fact that Master Xiang Boxiang did not fan the flames beside him, that Xiang Yu accepted the explanations of Liu Laosan and Kui Che and others with suspicion, but of course, Xiang Yu quickly found that another key situation was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Slow, there is still something wrong with this matter!" Han Xin is just a small general, he doesn't have much power, and he doesn't have many troops in his hands, why did Xiang Kang's traitors frame him so deliberately? Even if he succeeded in deceiving the king to kill Han Xin unjustly, it would have no effect at all? ”

Liu Laosan and Kui Che were completely speechless, and they really couldn't understand why Xiang Kang had to go to such great lengths to set up such an insidious and vicious trick to frame Han Xin, a general who didn't have much power?

Fortunately, at the critical moment, it was Master Xiang Boxiang who gave a very genius answer, and said eloquently: "King, I'm afraid that this matter is related to Han Xin's suggestion that you enter the hinterland of Yingchuan, and that little evil animal of Xiang Kang must have heard that we entered the hinterland of Yingchuan, because the king you adopted Han Xin's suggestion and caused huge losses to the little evil animal, and that little evil animal used tricks to frame Han Xin in order to take revenge." ”

After that, Master Xiang also said with another purpose: "Also, virtuous nephew, we should also strengthen the eyeliner to fight the Han thieves, even the outsider in Tiandu knows that our army has a lot of Han thief eyeliner, and even can know what happened in the tent of our Chinese commander, Xiang Kang's little evil animal is also like an unpredictable prophet, often can know our plan of action in advance, and make arrangements and preparations first, if these hidden dangers are not removed, we don't dare to sleep and close our eyes." ”

Kui Che and Liu Laosan were of course overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly echoed Xiang Boxiang's opinion, and also insisted that Xiang Kang designed to frame Han Xin in this way, it must be because Xiang Kang knew that the Western Chu army's entry into the hinterland of Yingchuan was out of Han Xin's suggestion, and in order to retaliate against Han Xin, he did such a shameless lack of morality, and at the same time thought that Xiang Yu should strengthen the internal cleansing, and not let the Han army's eyeliner be too rampant.

Not to mention, Master Xiang's opinion is really logical and reasonable, plus Xiang Yu has long suspected that there are many Han army spies hidden in the Western Chu Army, resulting in himself often being passive, so Xiang Yu not only nodded in approval of Master Xiang's opinion, but also said to Master Xiang: "Uncle Ji, this matter will be handed over to you, carefully check our interior for this king, as long as you find that the Han thief's eyeliner is fine, we will take it down immediately and deal with it severely!" ”

"Don't worry, the king is on the minister." Master Xiang Boxiang agreed, and said proudly in his heart: "Okay, the opportunity to make a fortune has come, after taking such a mission, it is difficult for the old man to think that it is not enough to make a windfall!" ”

In this way, although there were still some doubts in his heart, because there was no conclusive evidence, and several confidants and important ministers believed that Han Xin was framed, Xiang Yu still let Han Xin go for the first time, and did not continue to pursue it, but just buried Liu Er, the traitor of the Nanyang Army who betrayed Han Xin, alive, and then the next day, Xiang Yu also led the retreat in the direction of Xu County according to the original plan. At this moment, Xiang Kang had just gone to order the Wu clan to order the Han army Zheng Bu's headquarters to go south to the hinterland of Yingchuan and shrink the encirclement of the main force of the Western Chu army.

Because of the distance, or when he arrived in Kunyang in the north, Xiang Kang received a detailed report that the main force of the Western Chu army had retreated to the mainland, in order not to mobilize the main forces of all walks of life in vain, and in order to strive for the last hope, Xiang Kang decisively ordered the army to speed up and go north, wanting to try to catch up with the main force of the Western Chu army, delay the retreat of the Western Chu army, and buy time for Zheng Bu's corps and Zhou Shu's corps.

It's a pity, step by step, step by step, the Han army chased quickly, and the Western Chu army, which did not want to be surrounded by the Han army, retreated quickly, and when Xiang Kang took 70,000 Han troops to chase Yingyang, which was voluntarily abandoned by the Western Chu army, the main force of the Western Chu army had also withdrawn to Xu County, and the Western Chu army's partial division Ding Gu was in a division, and then under the skillful persuasion of Liu Laosan and Kui Che and others, the Western Chu army, which had expanded the size of the army to more than 120,000 people by forced conscripts, quickly advanced eastward, carrying the money, food, and beauties looted in Xu County. Xiang Yu also personally led the elite troops to take on the task of the palace.

More than two days later, when Xiang Kang and his army chased to Xu County, the Western Chu army had not only already withdrawn to Chen County, but countless people of Xu County, who had run out of food, also came to meet them, crying and confiding in the Han army about the brutal bestiality of the Western Chu army, and begging Xiang Kang, who had previously announced that Yingchuan would be included in the land of the Han State, to show mercy and reward them with some grain to survive, Xiang Kang had no choice but to order to take out grain from the military rations to help the people, and to transfer grain, seeds and cattle from Guanzhong, Aocang and other places, Help restore people's livelihood in the hinterland of Yingchuan, which was looted by the Western Chu army.

That night, while resting outside the city of Xuxian County, Xiang Kang held a military meeting with the main civil and military officials of the Han army to discuss whether they should continue the pursuit and go to Western Chu to fight Xiang Yu to the death.

The reason why most of the Han army's civil and military advocates continuing the pursuit is also very simple, first, the Han army was forced to give up the advantageous fighters on the north and south lines for this decisive battle, and the sacrifice was too great, and it would be a pity if the capital was not recovered; The second is that although Chen County is the land of Western Chu, but through the chasm route, the Han army can send a steady stream of food from Aocang and Guanzhong to the hinterland of Chen County, and march into Chen County in a big way.

The third reason is the simplest, after the Peng Feng Rebellion, the Western Chu army is currently in the weakest and most fragile stage, if you don't seize the fighter plane to quickly eliminate the Western Chu, and when the Western Chu army relaxes, it will only become more difficult to eliminate the Western Chu army.

Only Tang Bing and Lou Jing, the old men of Shangshan, opposed the continued pursuit, and Lou Jing, who had a unique strategic vision, also clearly pointed out: "Great King, take advantage of the situation to enter the hinterland of Chen County, and our grain and grass problem can be solved by relying on the chasm, but the Western Chu thief army will definitely understand this truth, and will definitely not stay in Chen County and wait for death, and will definitely only continue to retreat and retreat to the battlefield that is beneficial to them and fight with us." At that time, our grain route will be lengthened, and it will be difficult to supply, but the Western Chu thief army can supply on the spot, relying on the freshly harvested autumn grain to confront us for a long time, and once there is any problem in our grain road, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable. ”

"Not only that, but if we don't go well in the east, even if we just don't succeed, the situation will become very unfavorable for us." Lou Jing continued: "First of all, of course, the enemy on the Qidi battlefield will get a chance to breathe, and the Lijifu will take the opportunity to gain a foothold in Nanjun, making it more difficult for us to clear the remnants of the enemy on the north and south lines. The second is that we have just taken Zhao and Nanyang may have a repetition, especially Zhao Guo, Zhao King Zhao Xie surrendered to us Everyone knows, seeing the opportunity to appear, he may not give birth to a repetition, only let our main force on the northern front free up their hands as soon as possible to return to Zhao Di, in order to completely break Zhao Xie's thoughts, but also for us to completely integrate Zhao State's manpower and material resources for us to buy time. ”

"In addition, the Western Chu Thief Army has now passed the most dangerous moment." Lou Jing continued: "The Peng Feng Rebellion occurred in the summer, and now the winter is about to reach the month of Layue, after half a year, the government center of the Western Chu thief army has already been rebuilt, and the counties and counties must have resumed normal operation, if nothing else, Fan Zeng, the father who stayed in Pengcheng, must have re-formed a large number of troops in the rear of Western Chu that was not affected by Peng Feng's rebellion, and can open the front line to participate in the war at any time, the enemy's troops are fighting more and more, but our grain route is getting longer and longer, what will be the consequences in the end, You can imagine that. ”

"As for Chen County, it is indeed not difficult for us to take Chen County at the moment, but for the sake of just one Chen County, at the same time use our three-way main army, wouldn't it be a waste to kill chickens with knives and knives? Sacrificing fighters on the north and south lines for the sake of a Chen county, do we lose money? If you really want to take Chen County, when the main force of the Western Chu thief army has withdrawn, can you use our three-way main force to send a partial division to kill Chen County? ”

The public says that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and anyone who changes will hesitate, Xiang Kang is of course no exception, but fortunately, as a traverser, Xiang Kang's biggest advantage is that there are successful examples to plagiarize and learn from.

In Xiang Kang's memory, in the historical battle between Chu and Han, when Liu Laosan launched the decisive battle to destroy Chu, first of all, the princes of the world, except for Xiang Yu himself, had either fallen to Liu Laosan, or remained neutral, and no one helped Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was in a state of complete isolation, but Liu Laosan was completely carefree. However, Xiang Kang has not yet done this, in addition to the two princes and kings of Qi who are still submitting to Xiang Yu, the Western Chu army currently in Nanjun is partial to several divisions, and it can also pose a little threat to the rear of the Han army.

The second is that in history, Han Xin has thoroughly digested Qi and established an armed force in Qi that can influence the situation in the world, forcing Xiang Yu to take the initiative to ask him for peace. At the same time, Peng Yue also raised a strong enough army in Liangdi, which fundamentally seriously weakened the strength of the Western Chu army, and also helped Liu Laosan a lot in the decisive battle between Chu and Han. So strictly speaking, Liu Laosan gathered the strength of the six countries to win half of Xiang Yu's remnants.

Xiang Kang also failed to do this, although Uncle Zhou, who replaced Han Xin, successfully took Zhao Di and forced Yan to surrender, but he had not yet eliminated Tian Jiao and Tian Da of Qi, and at the same time, because of lack of time, the Han army had not had time to digest the fruits of Zhao's victory, and in fact still relied on its own manpower and material resources to fight. And Peng Yue is even more miserable, after Xue Jun was beaten by Xiang Yu and his vitality was greatly injured, he can only survive around Juyeze at present, let alone help the Han army, it is difficult to protect himself.

The third reason is also critical, Xiang Yu made a foolish attack on the Sanchuan battlefield held by Liu Laosan's heavy soldiers, and was pit by Peng Yue to run back and forth, completely exhausting his own strength, Liu Laosan took advantage of Xiang Yu's opportunity to withdraw his troops from the chasm and return to the mainland, relying on a sneak attack to bite Xiang Yu, and bought time for Han Xin and Peng Yue's reinforcements to encircle the Western Chu army.

These objective conditions do not exist at present, the Western Chu army still has spare strength to dig up, and there are follow-up reinforcements to count on, and it is a local battle that has just ended the autumn harvest, and the supply of grain and grass is easy, and more importantly, the Western Chu army is retreating to the rear in a prepared situation, Xiang Kang commanded the 70,000 Han army not only does not have any chance to sneak attack the Western Chu army, on the contrary, it may be occupied by the local strength advantage of the Western Chu army to bite back and be hit hard.

After carefully recalling these important prerequisites, and combining with the current actual situation of the Han army, Xiang Kang finally made up his mind and said: "For the sake of safety, it is better not to chase, our current time to destroy Chu is not yet ripe, it is not too late to wait until we have completely eliminated the remnants of the enemy on the north and south fronts, digested the results of victory and integrated our forces, and then launched a decisive battle to destroy Chu." ”

"King, what should I do if the Western Chu thief army has re-established a powerful army?" Long Ji asked, "At that time, won't it only be more difficult for us to destroy Chu?" ”

"Don't worry, no matter how many troops my father raises for my brother, it won't be long before my brother will be ruined." Xiang Kang smiled and said: "You don't know my brother's temper yet, just like the gunpowder in the thunder in our palms, a little spark can be ignited, I bet that it won't be long before my brother will come back and attack us again, and then we only need to rely on the fortified city to exhaust his troops, and then it will be easy to destroy him." ”

"Take 10,000 steps back." Xiang Kang smiled again and said: "Even if my brother calms down and no longer takes the initiative to send troops to fight us, we only need to integrate the manpower and material resources of the five countries outside the Guanzhong, plus the manpower and material resources of our Guanzhong locals, and not rely on money, grain and army piles, can completely pile up the Western Chu thief army to death?" ”

Seeing that Xiang Kang had made up his mind, although the Han army still felt a little regretful, he did not insist on opposing it, Xiang Kang said with a relaxed expression: "Let's discuss how to adjust our strategy and army deployment, because the Western Chu thief army suddenly entered the hinterland of Yingchuan, not only is it difficult for us to contact the rear, but the established strategies and defense subordinates of all armies have been disrupted, and it is time to readjust." ”

In this way, because he felt that the time was not ripe enough to destroy Chu, and because it was difficult to bite the main force of the Western Chu army again, Xiang Kang decisively gave up the established plan of concentrating the three main forces to annihilate the Western Chu army, and also readjusted the next strategic plan of the Han army, and decided to let Zhou Shu's corps return to the northern front, while digesting the victory of Zhao State, while preparing to march into Qidi to eliminate Tian Da and Tian Jiao, the last two Guanwai princes who were still attached to the Western Chu army.

In the middle route, Zheng Bu's corps returned to Puyang, reinforced the troops and was responsible for containing the main force of the Western Chu army, and at the same time opened up contact with Peng Yue, helping Peng Yue to strengthen guerrilla warfare in Xue County and Dangjun and other places, gradually encroaching on the territory of the Western Chu army, and also trying to provoke Xiang Yu and lure Xiang Yu to send troops to counterattack as soon as possible, and launch an attack on the middle battlefield that was most beneficial to the Han army.

The southern front still sent Ding Ji to help Li Shang and Yingbu, responsible for eliminating Liji, and forcing Wu Rui to stand in line, completely isolating the Western Chu army. The rest of the Han army withdrew to Xingyang Aocang to rest and recuperate, replenish the troops and let the main soldiers who had been fighting for a long time rest and recover, and by the way established a second line of defense to defend Guanzhong to prevent the Western Chu army from coming back, and Yingchuan was handed over to Han Xin by Xiang Kang.

The matter is not over, Xiang Kang has not forgotten the reason for fabricating his abandonment of the pursuit, and decisively let the Han soldiers let out the news, saying that this time he was actually sick and went on the expedition, and when he arrived in Xu County, he really couldn't hold on to it before he decided to withdraw from the army, and he was ready to return to Guanzhong for recuperation and treatment. Needless to say, after the Western Chu Army reported this important situation to Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu immediately remembered the letter that Xiang Kang wrote to Han Xin, and suddenly realized why Xiang Kang said that the plan had changed, of course, Xiang Yu immediately became suspicious of Han Xin......

"It seems that you still have to guard against that crotch child, for the sake of safety, it's best to find a reason as soon as possible, and slaughter that puppet with a sword once and for all!"