Thousands of miles away, Xiang Kang could not operate it personally, so he could only remotely command the Han army's Nanyang County Shou Lu Qi to implement the plan, and the three-king alliance army was actually quite conflicting, but what Xiang Kang didn't expect was that Lu Qi did not carry out his orders in the slightest, and made a little adjustment to Xiang Kang's plan on his own initiative.

Originally, Xiang Kang weighed the pros and cons and deduced again and again, asking Lu Qi to arrange for an unwitting death to come forward, negotiate and contact the most difficult Liu Laosan, and take the opportunity to frame him, so that Liu Laosan would be unjustly wronged. However, after deduction, Lu Qi found that it was absolutely safe to arrange for the dead to come forward, but the effect of the discord would be greatly reduced, so he boldly arranged for a doorman who knew the inside story to come forward and let him exercise the discord strategy for the Han army, so as to more effectively deduct the basin on Liu Laosan's head.

Lu Qi also has a lot of confidence to dare to adjust Xiang Kang's plan privately, the reason is that the ranger atmosphere of this era is prevalent, and the heroes often value righteousness and life, and they like to receive the grace of people to return with springs, and they are even more generous to the ground, and there is no shortage of such righteous people under Lu Qi who likes to snare people and eaters, in addition to Chen Hui and Gongliangzao, there is also a doorman named Wen Xun who has also received Lu Qi's great grace, although he never thanked him, but Lu Qi can see it, This Wen Xun was definitely willing to sacrifice his life in order to repay himself.

Lü Xun was not wrong, when he entrusted the important task to Wen Xun, Wen Xun only made one request, begging Lü Xun to take care of his mother in the future, and then he did not hesitate to embark on the journey, rushed to Liu Laosan's camp by car, and asked to meet Liu Laosan in the name of the envoy of Han Cheng, the king of Han, and handed over the letter written by Han Cheng to Liu Laosan in person.

Liu Laosan was really fooled, he heard that the person who came was Han Cheng's envoy, so he ordered a summons without thinking too much, and arranged a seat for him after meeting Wen Xun, and then asked with a smile: "I don't know why Hengyang Jun (Han Cheng's old title before he became king) sent Mr. here?" ”

"Thank you." Wen Xun smiled and said: "Pei Gong Gaoyi, after capturing my king in Ye County before, not only did he not humiliate and kill, but also sent someone to send our king gift back to the Korean army, the grace of righteousness, our Korean soldiers and civilians are unforgettable, it was too hasty at that time, our king failed to thank Pei Gong, and his heart was really unhappy, so today he specially sent a small envoy to the camp and presented a small gift to Pei Gong, in order to thank Pei Gong for his great kindness, and also asked Pei Gong to smile and accept." ”

After that, Wen Xuncai presented the gift he brought with both hands, Liu Laosan laughed when he saw it, and said, "Why does Hengyang Jun have so many courtesies? At that time, the king had already made it very clear to him that the reason why I sent him back to the camp was because the king had no enmity with him, and I regretted that he was not a human being, and unfortunately got on the thief ship of Xiang Kang's rebels, and could not bear to harm him, so I sent him away. If Hengyang Jun really wants to thank him, he only needs to remain in the middle of the war between the king and Xiang Kang in the future, and he doesn't need to thank him with any vulgar things. ”

After pretending to finish, Liu Laosan waved his hand again and again, repeatedly asking Wen Xun to bring the gift back to Han Cheng, and Wen Xun pretended to ask Liu Laosan to accept it under the pretense of Han Cheng's reputation, and took out a white silk letter written without sealing, and said: "Pei Gong, this is our handwritten letter from King Han, please take a look." ”

Out of courtesy, Liu Laosan asked the guard in the tent to take the letter and forward it to him, and when he took it and watched it, he saw that the content of Han Cheng's letter was only to thank himself for the last time, and there was not much nutrition, and he was about to put it down, when he suddenly saw the last sentence of Han Cheng's letter, his heart suddenly froze, and he quickly asked: "Sir, didn't Hengyangjun still want you to bring a letter from Xiang Kang by the way?" Where is the epistle? ”

"The king also wants the envoy to bring a letter from the king of Han by the way?" Wen Xun deliberately pretended to be stupid, and said in surprise: "No? The king just asked the envoy to bring his letters and thanks, and didn't let the envoy bring any other letters? ”

"Then why did Hengyang Jun say at the end of the letter, Mr. Jean, you brought a letter from Xiang Kang's rebel thief to this king by the way?" Liu Laosan hurriedly asked.

"Is there such a thing?" Wen Xun's face was full of surprise, and he said, "The king, he didn't explain to the little envoy?" Did he forget the king? ”

The sixth sense is very keen, Liu Laosan vaguely found that the situation was a little bad, and subconsciously looked at Wen Xun suspiciously, and suddenly ordered: "Take the gift that Hengyang Jun gave to this king." ”

According to Liu Laosan's order, the guard in the tent immediately stepped forward and brought the gift box brought by Wen Xun to Liu Laosan, Liu Laosan hurriedly opened it, and saw that there was only a pair of very precious jade walls in the box, and there was nothing else, so he couldn't help but be even more surprised, and said secretly: "What's the matter?" Could it be that Han Cheng forgot? Impossible, such a big thing, even if Han Cheng forgot about it for a while, he would definitely be able to remember it after a while, and send someone to catch up with the messenger and bring the letter. ”

Becoming more and more suspicious, Liu Laosan was thinking about whether to let the guards search Xun's body, but he never thought that someone outside the tent suddenly came to report, saying that it was Xiang Yu's canonized Hanzhong King Chai Wu who came to visit the camp, and then before Liu Laosan ordered to summon him, Chai Wu had already strode into front of his Chinese army's big tent, laughed and said: "King Nanyang, I have nothing to do to come and ask for a glass of wine, by the way, discuss how to attack Wancheng, I don't know if the King of Nanyang has time?" ”

"I'm busy with a little thing, and I'll accompany the king of Hanzhong to drink for a while."

Liu Laosan agreed with a smile, and waved his guard to let go, Chai Wu took the opportunity to lead a few henchmen into the Chinese army's big tent, and pretended to be surprised to glance at Wen Xun, and said, "There are guests?" The big war is coming, so the guests? ”

"Hengyang Jun sent me to thank this king."

Liu Laosan explained casually, and was about to send Wen Xun away, but Chai Wu took a quick look at the letter in front of Liu Laosan and said, "Huh? And letters? Pei Gong, can you let this king read the letter that Hengyang Jun wrote to you? ”

Before Chai Wu's words fell, Liu Laosan, who had always been in the city, had already changed his face, and immediately understood that the situation was wrong, and said secretly: "It's just a coincidence? Or did Chai Wupifu do it on purpose? ”

Liu Laosan was indeed resourceful, although he was panicked in his heart, but after suddenly thinking of a possibility, Liu Laosan hurriedly picked up the letter, handed it to Chai Wu with a smile and said, "King of Hanzhong, please feel free." ”

Chai Wu hurriedly took the letter and read it carefully, and soon noticed that Han Cheng mentioned at the end of the letter that he had asked the envoy to bring a letter from Xiang Kang by the way, so he immediately asked: "King Nanyang, King Hengyang said that he also asked the messenger to bring a letter from Xiang Kang's traitor by the way, dare to ask where the letter is?" ”

"There is no such epistle." Liu Laosan replied very frankly: "The envoy of Hengyang Jun only brought this letter, not the letter of Xiang Kang's traitor. ”

Chai Wu would not believe Liu Laosan's explanation unless he was stupid, but immediately turned to Wen Xun and looked at Wen Xun's expression, Wen Xun remembered Lu Xun's instructions, and quickly shook his head and said: "King, the king of Nanyang did not lie to you, our king may have forgotten, the little envoy only brought this letter, and there was no letter written by the king of Han to the king of Nanyang." ”

"Forgot?" Chai Wu almost laughed out loud and said, "Such an important matter, Hengyang-jun can also forget?" ”

Wen Xunqiang smiled and said, "Maybe our king was careless for a while, in short, there really is no such letter." ”

Chai Wu smiled even more weirdly, and looked at Liu Laosan out of the corner of his eye, and Liu Laosan also vaguely understood that he had fallen into the trap, so he decisively slapped the case and shouted: "Bold puppet!" Bring me to this king, who sent you? Is Han Cheng's letter a trap used by Xiang Kang's thief army to slander this king? Tell the truth, or watch your head! ”

If it is a death room who does not know the inside story, it is okay, he was intimidated by Liu Laosan and told the truth, admitting that the matter was all arranged by Lu Yan, and the next development will not go to the extreme, but unfortunately Wen Xun is a dead room who knows the inside story, in order to sit on the suspicion of Liu Laosan, Wen Xun immediately continued to deny it, and said: "Pei Gong, don't misunderstand, it is really possible that our king forgot the letter written to you by the king of Han and did not hand it over to the envoy, or the envoy will go back to report to the king, and ask the king to hand over the letter of the king of Han to the envoy to bring it." ”

After that, Wen Xun got up and walked out, the guards in the tent hurriedly stopped him, Wen Xun didn't speak, just turned his back to Liu Laosan and Chai Wu and sneered in his heart, Liu Laosan also understood that Wen Xun was deliberately deducting basins for himself, so he decisively shouted: "Take it!" Torture, let him tell the truth! ”

The brutal torture began, in front of Liu Laosan and Chai Wu, Liu Laosan's guards first punched and kicked, and then used a bamboo board sharp cone to torture Wen Xun to the point that he was covered with bruises and was not human, but Wen Xun, who had long been determined to die, refused to change his words when he said anything, pretending to protect Liu Laosan, and continued to insist that it was Han Cheng who forgot to hand over the letter to him, and refused to admit that he was actually Lu Qi, even if he fainted in pain several times, he still had a weak voice to excuse Liu Laosan after being woken up.

At this time, Cao Shen, Fan Xu and Xiao He and other Liu Laosan's cronies also heard the news and rushed to understand the situation, and after learning what happened, the hot-tempered Fan Xu also broke several of Wen Xun's ribs with his own hands, but Wen Xun, who was constantly spurting blood in his mouth, still refused to confess, insisted on wanting to cover up and continue to speak for Liu Laosan.

Seeing this scene, Liu Laosan, who had been a ranger for several years, also understood that he had met a dead soldier, so he simply said directly to Chai Wu: "King Hanzhong, this king knows that now I can't wash it even if I jump into the Yellow River, this king only asks you and the king of Linjiang to believe me, I am not a thief with Xiang Kang, and I will never secretly collude with him to betray you and the king of Linjiang." ”

"Of course this king can trust the king of Nanyang." Chai Wu replied with a smile, and said: "King Nanyang is busy, let's get together another day, and this king will go back to urge the soldiers to make siege weapons." ”

After finishing speaking, Chai Wu immediately got up and said goodbye, Liu Laosan, who was already suspicious, did not stay, but just smiled and personally sent Chai Wu out of the Chinese army camp, and when he returned to the big tent, Wen Xun happened to faint again, Fan Xu wanted to carry water and splash him up again, Liu Laosan shouted angrily: "No need, this puppet is clearly a dead man, no matter how he fights, he will not change his words." ”

Fan Hao stopped stupidly, and Xiao He next to him hurriedly said, "King, what should I do?" Looking at Chai Wu's expression, he is obviously already suspicious of you, and this puppet refuses to confess, and there is no way to clear your suspicion. ”

Liu Laosan didn't answer, and suddenly showed a hideous smile, and said with a cruel smile: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er made a stinky move this time, if he sent an unwitting death to frame me, I might have been more difficult to do, but he added to the snake, and he sent a dead man to exercise the divisive plan, and my affairs would be much easier!" ”

"What do you mean by that, my lord?" Xiao He asked suspiciously.

"Dumber than a pig or a cow!" Liu Laosan habitually scolded a swear word, and then said with a cruel smile: "If this puppet is just dead, doesn't know the real truth, and confesses truthfully, I can't be sure what Chai Wu means, and whether it is a coincidence that he suddenly came over today." But this puppet is a dead man, and he deliberately insisted on framing me in front of Chai Wu's puppet, which is tantamount to telling this king that Chai Wu is the object of Xiang Kang's discord, and it is possible that Xiang Kang'er will be bribed and enveloped in the past, so it is much easier for us to guard against it. ”

"So what should we do now?" Xiao He hurriedly asked.

Liu Laosan didn't answer, and only shouted after a while: "Call Han Xin immediately, I want to hear his opinion." ”

According to Liu Laosan's order, Han Xin was soon called in front of Liu Laosan, and after listening to Liu Laosan's introduction, Han Xin was not angry but happy, and said: "Good opportunity!" Now as long as we plan it, we will definitely be able to break the Han army and easily take the important town of Wancheng! ”

"How do you count it?" Liu Laosan hurriedly asked.

Han Xin hurriedly told Liu Laosan the tactics he had come up with in an instant, Liu Laosan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered Cao Shen and others to prepare secretly, and hurried to the camp of the Yingbu army, but contacted Yingbu, who was not yet aware, and introduced the details of the matter to Yingbu, and asked Yingbu to help him act according to the plan......

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Turning his head to look at the situation on Chai Wu's side, after returning to his camp, Chai Wu, who had already believed that Liu Laosan and Xiang Kang were secretly colluding, thought twice, and still reported that Gong Liangzao, the envoy of the Han army who was detained in his own military camp last night, told him what he had seen and heard in Liu Laosan's camp, Gongliangzao was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly said to Chai Wu: "Wang, now you know that the little envoy is not lying to you, right?" also know how ruthless Liu Ji's puppet is, right? In order to cover up his shameless deeds, even the envoy who secretly contacted our Han king for him could do such a poisonous hand, let alone you? ”

Chai Wu didn't answer, but took out the letter that Xiang Kang wrote to himself, read it over and over for a long time, and then said: "Will your promise of King Han be fulfilled?" ”

"My lord, with all due respect, you don't have to worry about it." Gongliangzao smiled and said: "The credibility of our Han King, who in the world can compare?" When I was in Huaisi, there were so many land and cities, and our Han King still said that he would give it up, let alone a mere Nanyang County? ”

Considering that Xiang Kang's credit was indeed extremely good, Chai Wu hesitated for a moment before he said, "You go back first, let me think about it, and give you an answer as soon as possible." ”

"King, I really don't know what else you have to consider." Gong Liangzao hurriedly said: "Things have come to this point, if you don't strike first, and you are preempted by Liu Jipifu, you just want to regret it too late." ”

"I still have to think about Yingbu." Chai Wu said very directly: "Liu Ji Pifu is not difficult to deal with, but Yingbu is not only my friend of life and death, but the soldiers and horses in his hands are comparable to mine, if he stands on Liu Ji Pifu's side, even if you help, I am not sure to kill Liu Ji Pifu." ”

"Your Majesty, don't you just ask King Linjiang to remain neutral?" Gongliangzao suggested: "When you suddenly make a move, the king, you send someone to contact the king of Linjiang at the same time, tell him the truth, and ask him to remain neutral, anyway, his fiefdoms are in Nanjun, Changsha and Qianzhong, there is no need to fight to the end for Nanyang and our Han army and your army, and our Han king also understands that he has shown goodwill, how can he refuse?" ”

Chai Wu was moved, and nodded involuntarily, and then said after thinking: "Go back and tell Lu Junshou and General Zhongli that when I am ready, I will send someone to contact them and make an appointment to do it together." ”

Gongliang made great joy, thanked Chai Wu, and said goodbye and went back to report the good news to Lu Qi. But what Gongliangzao never dreamed of was that although Chai Wu did make up his mind, in the evening, Yingbu and Liu Laosan secretly came to Chai Wu's camp again, and talked with Chai Wu until late at night......

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Looking at the situation on Lü Qi's side, after Gongliangzao brought the details of the envoy back to Wancheng, Lü Qi was also overjoyed, in addition to immediately inviting Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill to tell them the situation, he couldn't wait to send the envoy back to Guanzhong, and reported the details of the matter to Xiang Kang, and also had to look at Shu, and suggested that Xiang Kang increase his troops in Nanyang as soon as possible, and strive to keep the fertile soil of Nanyang that the Han army planned to strategically abandon.

It's a pity that after learning about the specific situation on Lu Qi's side, Xiang Kang not only didn't have the slightest joy, but on the contrary, he also complained bitterly, screaming: "Be smart!" Lu Qi is a big deal for me! Wancheng is finished! ”

The messenger sent by Lu Qi was dumbfounded, and Zhou Zeng next to him was also taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "King, why do you say that Wancheng is over?" ”

"Lu Qi shouldn't use a dead soldier!" Xiang Kang sighed: "If he sends the dead to frame Liu Ji according to my arrangement, and the dead who doesn't know the inside story tells the truth and admits that he was sent by Lu Qi, General Chai Wu will be suspicious and will not make up his mind to defect immediately, but will only secretly preserve his strength and guard against Liu Ji carefully, then under the intrigue, Lu Qi and Zhong Liwu will have a great confidence in holding on to the city and holding on until Liu Ji, Chai Wu and Yingbu have all the food and food of the thieves and retreat!" In the future, we will continue to sow discord, so that Liu Ji and Chai Wu can really turn against each other and get the maximum benefits! ”

"But Lu Qi is clever again, and he has done this to send a dead soldier to pit Liu Ji in the dead!"

Xiang Kang couldn't help but slam the case in front of him again, and roared angrily: "Doesn't this clearly tell Liu Ji that we have done something to Chai Wu and want to use Chai Wu's hand to clean him up?" With the cunning of this traitor, how could he not plan and secretly put his heart on Chai Wu, and let Chai Wu come forward to lure our Wancheng defenders into taking risks and falling into his trap?! ”

"Will Chai Wu believe his heart? Betraying us again? Zhou Zeng couldn't believe Xiang Kang's inference.

"How could it be?" Xiang Kang shook his head helplessly and said: "Our design to frame Liu Ji is a bit far-fetched, as long as Liu Ji tells Chai Wu the truth and points out our purpose, Chai Wu will be difficult to understand our intentions!" Lu Qi thinks that he has a plan, and he will definitely fall into the trap of the thief army! ”

Zhou Zeng didn't dare to say anything, but Xiang Kang thought about it a little, and immediately ordered: "Tell Zheng Bu to command 10,000 troops, immediately go south to reinforce Wuguan, and respond to Zhong Liwu and Lu Qi's defeated troops, no matter what, you must defend Wuguan for me!" ”

The guards in the palace sang a promise, and hurriedly went out to give an order to Zheng Bu, the general of the Han army, but Xiang Kang smashed another punch on the case, and sighed helplessly again: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it!" Liu Laosan, your luck is really not ordinary, the blessing of this idiot, I have painstakingly arranged the divisive plan, but it is cheaper for you to quickly take the important town of Wancheng. ”

After a long sigh and a long sigh, after thinking about it carefully, Xiang Kang found that he had forgotten an important issue - that is, Liu Laosan, Chai Wu and Yingbu would never have expected that they had just received Lu Qi's report, and they could predict that Wancheng would inevitably be lost, and decisively send reinforcements to reinforce Wuguan! If you make a fuss about this, it is entirely possible to make up for Wancheng's defeat, just like playing chess, just after being captured a chess piece, you will immediately eat another chess piece of the opponent!

"My capital is thick, and the redemption tactics are in my favor! Gotta redeem! As soon as he came to this conclusion in his heart, Xiang Kang immediately made up his mind and decisively ordered: "Send someone to the gunpowder warehouse immediately, move out half of the gunpowder in stock, and hand it over to Zheng Bu!" In addition, let Chen Ping hurry up and hand over the errand in his hand, and let him accompany Zheng Bu on the expedition! ”