If it weren't for the Han army's final boss Xiang Kang really arrived at the Julu battlefield in person the next day, the sky-high anger of Zhou Yin, the great Sima of Western Chu, would definitely be able to burn the camp of the ally Qi army clean, but just when Zhou Yin and Tian Bu were arguing about the robbery of the camp yesterday, a Qi army herald suddenly rushed into the big tent of the Chinese army, and said loudly to Tian and Zhou Yin, who were already blushing and had thick necks, and had barely moved:

"General! Here it comes! The puppet king of the Han thief, Xiang Kang, is here! The notoriously treacherous, cunning, and ruthless shameless thief Xiang Kang, he is really here! ”

At the same time, when Xiang Kang's Wang Qi appeared on the gallop road leading to the south, the soldiers of the two major corps of the Han army lined up on both sides of the gallop road, as well as the Han army camp behind them, also broke out at the same time Deafening cheers, whether it was out of true feelings or false intentions, whether it was genuinely supporting Xiang Kang, a despicable villain hypocrite, or just for sycophancy, almost every Han army soldier was cheering, and almost every Han army soldier was ecstatic, and the huge sound soared into the sky, As far as miles away, the scene is comparable to the strongest post-80s on the surface of the earth to inspect the grassroots in person.

The most excited was of course the Yu family sisters, just after seeing Xiang Kang who came by Wang Yuan, the little girl jumped out of the carriage, crying and rushing to Xiang Kang, but unfortunately, although Xiang Kang also got off the car immediately and was ready to hug her, the little girl suddenly remembered that she was still only Xiang Kang's sister-in-law, and had to stop only two steps away from Xiang Kang, blushing and choking out, "Sister-in-law." ”

The title of Yu Jiao's little girl also calmed down Xiang Kang, considering that he was already the king after all, he had to pay attention to the influence, Xiang Kang could only barely restrain the impulse in his heart, nodded to the little girl, and forcibly suppressed the thousand words in his heart, and then opened his arms to meet his wife Yu Miaoge, who was marrying Ming Media, and hugged her into his arms along with his child, and the crowd of Han soldiers and soldiers once again erupted in huge cheers.

In fact, the most touching thing is the moment when Xiang Kang and his good brother Feng Zhong met, in front of countless Han soldiers, Xiang Kang shed tears and slowly walked in front of Feng Zhong step by step, Feng Zhong was also in tears, but the two did not hug, just stretched out their right hands and hit them hard in the air, and then Xiang Kang grabbed Feng Zhong's hands with both hands, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother Feng, when I came to this world, the most right thing I did was to make friends with your brother." ”

Hearing Xiang Kang's heartfelt words, remembering his hardships and endurance in the past few years, as well as the difficulties and obstacles encountered when escorting the Han army's family to break through, Feng Zhong's nose was sore, and he immediately cried bitterly, shaking Xiang Kang's hands vigorously, and he had a thousand words in his chest, but he could never say a complete word......

It took a lot of time for Xiang Kang to appease the representatives of the rescued Han army's families, and also expressed his respect and gratitude to Li Shiqi, who had been imprisoned for many years but had always been loyal and unyielding, and exchanged admiration with Uncle Zhou, Zhou Shu and others who had been away for a long time, but just when Mr. Uncle Sun finally seized the opportunity to bow down in front of Xiang Kang and talk about flattery, Xiang Kang suddenly noticed that Zhang Liang, who was talking to Han Xin not far away, was as pale as paper, and his body was still shaking, and the situation was obviously wrong.

He quickly glanced at the other people around Zhang Liang again, and seeing that Han Cheng, who Zhang Liang had always insisted on following, was not at the scene, Xiang Kang vaguely noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly waved his hand to stop Mr. Uncle Sun's mouth, and came over to ask, "Mr. Zifang, what's wrong?" What about King Han? Didn't he escape? ”

For Han Cheng has always been unwilling to accept Xiang Kang's canonization of official positions, Zhang Liang of course had no face to answer, Han Xin did not have the face to introduce Han Cheng's situation, in the end, it was Feng Zhong who came forward and introduced to Xiang Kang the situation of Han Cheng's betrayal of the Han army and his death in the chaos, Xiang Kang listened to it for a long time, and then asked: "How is the body of King Han placed?" ”

"Brought it back." Feng Zhong replied: "It is currently stored in General Zheng's camp, waiting for you to dispose of it, the king." ”

Xiang Kang nodded, then patted Zhang Liang on the shoulder, and said, "Mr. Zifang, you deal with it, pick a good place to bury him, and I will pay for it." Also, his children have been handed over to you, and I will teach them to grow up, and then I will arrange official positions for them as I see fit. ”

Zhang Liang knelt down to Xiang Kang with a plop, and sobbed for a long time before saying: "Thank you King Han, King Han is magnanimous, not only does he not care about the heinous crimes of the foreign ministers, but on the contrary, he does not forget to treat the heirs of the foreign ministers and kings. ”

Xiang Kang personally picked up Zhang Liang, who was crying bitterly, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Mr. Zifang, don't lose, the matter will pass, this is not the place to talk, go, go to the camp, we still have a lot of important things to discuss carefully." ”

Because the sisters of the Yu family and the family members of the Han army all lived in the camp of the Zheng Bu Corps, Xiang Kang, who only led five thousand elites, of course, also established his so-called imperial camp in the camp of the Zheng Bu Corps.

Like Uncle Zhou and the others, Xiang Kang was also very surprised that the Han Army's Zheng Bu Corps failed to lure the enemy last night, and couldn't help but smile at Li Zuoche and asked, "Guangwujun, what's going on?" What is wrong there, why did your carefully designed plan to throw bricks and lead the jade have no effect at all? ”

"The King forgives sins." Li Zuoche replied with a wry smile: "Your Majesty doesn't understand what went wrong, yesterday our scouts had obviously discovered that the Qi State Thief Army had signs of secret preparations, but I don't know why, the Qi State Thief Army did not send troops last night." ”

Xiang Kang couldn't figure out the reason, and there was no need to bother with this kind of thing, so he smiled and said: "Forget it, if you miss an opportunity, you can miss an opportunity, anyway, it won't have much impact, taking advantage of the fact that it's still early, let's quickly discuss how to kill the remaining Qi Chu Zhao thief army as soon as possible." ”

The Han army agreed, and quickly sat down according to their official positions, and sat down in danger to discuss the tactics of the decisive battle with Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang also spoke directly, and said straight to the point: "Everyone, the reason why this king came to Julu to command this decisive battle is because this decisive battle is extremely important to us, if we can't completely annihilate the Qi Chu thief army outside Julu City before Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, personally leads the army to reinforce, and take the giant deer to destroy the Zhao thief army, then with the courage and good fighting of the king of Western Chu, as well as the terrain around Julu that is unfavorable to us, As well as our long single grain route, the battlefield of Zhao Di is very likely to be turned over by the enemy, and our previous sacrifices and efforts are very likely to be in vain, so this king hopes that all the generals must be good to supervise the soldiers to fight bravely, quickly break the enemy, completely establish our victory on the northern front, and live up to the soldiers of our army who sacrificed their blood to attack the thief army of Zhao before. ”

Everyone in the Han army sang their promises in unison, Xiang Kang nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Everyone knows the stationing of the thief army, this king is not verbose, and now there is only one problem in front of us, that is, to fight the Zhao State thief army in Julu City first?" Or do you want to fight the Qi Chu thief army outside Julu City first? On this point, you can speak freely and without scruples, so that this king can listen and make the right choice that is most beneficial to our army. ”

After speaking, Xiang Kang also pointed at Uncle Zhou and said: "General Zhou, you have always been the main force on the northern front before, and you know the enemy's situation best, you say it first." ”

"Your Majesty obeys." Uncle Zhou agreed, and then said: "On this point, His Majesty also discussed with General Zheng Bu, but the opinions were opposite and no agreement was reached. His Majesty believes that although the thief army of Zhao is the weakest, but the Julu city is too strong, and there is the Qi Chu thief army as an external response, and it can send troops to attack our siege army at any time. Therefore, His Majesty believed that our army should first attack the bandit army outside the city, and then attack the city with all its strength after annihilating the enemy outside the city. ”

After that, Uncle Zhou hurriedly added, "There are two advantages to doing this, one is that the elite of the Zhao State thief army has been lost, and there is absolutely no spare strength to go out of the city to reinforce the enemy outside the city, we don't have to worry too much about the flank threat when we attack the Qi Chu thief army, and the other is that as long as we quickly annihilate the enemy outside the city, even if Xiang Yu personally raises troops to arrive, we only need to use a small part of the troops to contain the Zhao State thief army, which is seriously injured, and we can use the main force to engage the Western Chu reinforcements." ”

To make Uncle Zhou strange, Xiang Kang, who had always been obedient to him, not only did not immediately adopt his correct opinion, but on the contrary, he looked at him with a suspicious gaze, and then Xiang Kang turned to Zheng Bu and asked: "General Zheng, just now General Zhou said that you and his opinion is contrary, so you advocate attacking Julu City first?" ”

"Hui Wang, that's exactly the case." Zheng Bu hurriedly replied: "The last general proposes to fight the giant deer city first, the reason is also very simple, there is a new type of trebuchet initiated by you yourself, the king, we can quickly take the giant deer with great certainty, and at the same time, we can also force the Qi Chu thief army to go out of the camp for reinforcements, and take the opportunity to annihilate part of the Qi Chu thief army, so as to facilitate our next battle." In addition, after taking Julu City, we can also capture the grain and grass in the city and feed the enemy, reducing the pressure on our grain and grass. ”

To Uncle Zhou's surprise, after listening to Zheng Bu's opinions, Xiang Kang turned his puzzled gaze to him again, and after thinking about it, Xiang Kang suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "General Zhou, you shouldn't have used our new trebuchet in actual combat, right?" ”

"Returning to the king, no." Uncle Zhou replied truthfully: "Because the materials are too rare, our new trebuchet was only completed two days ago, so your subordinates have not used the new trebuchet initiated by you in actual combat until now. ”

Xiang Kang suddenly realized, Zheng Bu also patted his forehead, and finally understood why Uncle Zhou opposed his tactical plan, and then Xiang Kang smiled: "It's not strange, General Zhou, the wise man has a thousand thoughts, and occasionally makes a mistake, this time you are too conservative." But I can't blame you, mainly because you have never seen what kind of power the new trebuchet pioneered by this king is, and how much damage it has to the rammed earth city wall, so you stick to the old ways and don't dare to risk hitting the giant deer city first. ”

"Our new trebuchet, really that powerful?" Uncle Zhou was still a little skeptical, and said: "But as far as your subordinates know, when the king was in Puyang, he also first leveled the Western Chu thief army outside the city, and then attacked the city with all his might?" ”

"That's because the Western Chu thief army was stationed under Puyang City at that time, protecting the three gates of Puyang on three sides, and the north of Puyang is a big river, and our troops cannot be deployed, so this king has to fight the Western Chu thief army outside the city first."

Xiang Kang explained the reason with a smile, and said: "But the current situation is different, the Qichu thief army is afraid of our sharp soldiers, stationed in the mountains and highlands, let go of the two gates in the northeast of Julu and let us attack, our troops have both space to expand, and the opportunity to besiege the city to help, of course, we must pick the persimmon and pinch it softly, and take the Zhao thief army first." ”

Seeing that Xiang Kang was completely consistent with his own opinions, Zheng Bu was of course triumphant, and Uncle Zhou gradually woke up, and hurriedly said: "King, in this way, your subordinates are really too conservative this time, since the king thinks that he should fight Julu City first, then his subordinates fully support it, and it is just right to see with their own eyes what kind of amazing power the new trebuchet pioneered by the king himself." ”

"After you see it, you will never be separated from it in the future." Xiang Kang smiled and said, "Also, in the future, you will definitely not have to worry about how to attack the city." ”

Seeing that Xiang Kang said so confidently, of course Uncle Zhou could only quickly agree, and the general of the Han army, who belonged to Uncle Zhou's corps, also hurriedly said: "King, since we accidentally pulled General Zheng's hind legs this time, please give us a chance to atone for our crimes, and ask the king for permission to let the last general serve as the vanguard of the siege." ”

"General Worm, you're too good at fighting snakes with sticks, aren't you?" Gongsun Tong, another fierce general of the Han army who belonged to Zheng Bu's corps, was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Since you also admit that we are right, then we should be responsible for attacking the city." ”

After that, Gongsun Tong also did the same, and asked Xiang Kang to be the siege vanguard, but Xiang Kang smiled and waved his hand, and said: "Don't worry, when the discussion is over, we should first attack the gate of Julu." Everyone, the Zhao thief army should have learned the lesson of the Handan battlefield, and completely blocked the southwest two gates of Julu City, leaving only the northeast two gates in and out of traffic, and the Qi Chu thief army was stationed on the only high ground outside the city in the northeast of Julu, judging from the position of their camp, it should be the Qi State Thief Army responsible for covering the east gate of Julu, and the West Chu thief army being responsible for rescuing and covering the north gate of Julu, in this case, do you think we should focus on the gate of Julu City? ”

This time, there was finally no disagreement within the Han army, and the two military geniuses of Uncle Zhou and Li Zuoche only made a little calculation, and soon said in unison: "You should hit the East Gate first!" ”

"Why?" Xiang Kang asked thoughtfully.

"Returning to the king, because only by attacking the east gate of Julu first, we are most likely to create an opportunity to attack the city and send reinforcements, and at the same time attack the city, take the opportunity to severely damage the enemy outside the city, and reduce the resistance for our next step to annihilate the enemy outside the city."

Li Zuoche hurriedly said: "The thief army of the Qi State is intact, we stormed the east gate of the giant deer, they have the responsibility to shirk, and they can't find any excuse to shirk, we must have troops to rescue, we only need to prepare in advance, we will definitely win the opportunity to weaken the thief army of the Qi State." On the contrary, it is not the case, the West Chu thief army has been hit hard, and the vitality is greatly damaged, even if the north gate of Julu is in an emergency, they will definitely find all the excuses to refuse to send troops, even if they send troops, it is likely to be perfunctory, and they will not invest too many troops, it is difficult for us to take the opportunity to further weaken the West Chu thief army while attacking the city, which is not conducive to our next step to annihilate the enemy outside the city. ”

Uncle Zhou nodded, indicating that he also saw the same opinion, while Xiang Kang smiled and said, "Since Guangwujun and General Zhou both see it this way, then let's focus on the east gate of Julu." ”

Before Xiang Kang's words fell, Worm Da, Wang Ling, Gongsun Tong and Tao Xi and other generals couldn't wait to take the initiative to ask for an order to be the pioneer of the siege, but Xiang Kang still didn't make a decision, just smiled and asked Zheng Bu: "General Zheng, since General Zhou accidentally dragged you back this time, then let you choose for yourself, are you willing to be responsible for the siege?" Or would you like to be in charge of reinforcements? ”

As Xiang Kang expected, Zheng Bu only thought about it a little, and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, please order reinforcements!" Find the Qi State Thief Army to settle accounts! ”

Xiang Kang laughed and agreed, and agreed to let Worm Da lead the army to serve as the siege vanguard, Worm Da thanked him happily and happily accepted the order. Then it was at this time that Chen Ping spoke: "King, during the siege of the city and reinforcements, we must not forget the Western Chu thief army, His Majesty proposed that we should take advantage of the current situation to push the boat down the river and try to recruit Zhou Yin, the great Sima of the Western Chu thief army, so that Zhou Yin can not only make Zhou Yin more unwilling to rescue the Qi Zhao thief army, but also help us to annihilate the thief army outside the city in the next step." ”

The history is sparse, I don't know what kind of goods Zhou Yin is in history, Xiang Kang was inevitably a little surprised when he heard it, and said: "Recruit Zhou Yin? How can it be? He is my brother's confidant, how can the old minister of Western Chu, who followed my brother when he started the army in Wudi, be easily shaken? ”

"It's not necessarily impossible." Chen Ping said in a deep voice: "Please think about it, Zhou Yin led the Western Chu thief army to fight like this in Zhao Di, even if he successfully escapes and goes back, with the irritable temper of the King of Western Chu, it is absolutely impossible to spare him!" Since Zhou Yin is the confidant of the King of Western Chu, he must be very aware of this, as long as we start from this aspect, we are not afraid that he Zhou Yin will not waver, as long as he is shaken, our battle will be easy to fight. ”

Considering the irascible temper of his overlord cousin, Xiang Kang nodded slowly, and Li Shiqi, who was in the tent, didn't know how to learn a lesson, so he immediately stood up and said: "If the king is determined to surrender, then the old man is willing to go to the enemy camp in person to persuade Zhou Yin to surrender and abandon Chu and return to Han." ”

Xiang Kang thought about it for a while, and quickly shook his head and said: "Old Mr. Li, you can't just take risks, Zhou Yin Pifu may be shaken, but there must be many stubborn people around him, you go directly to persuade Zhou Yin Pifu to surrender, I'm afraid that there will be danger." ”

"King, trying to recruit Zhou Yin should be divided into two steps." Chen Ping proposed: "Your Majesty suggests that we might as well write a letter today to persuade Zhou Yin to surrender, explain the benefits and disadvantages to him, and lay the foundation." Then when we took the Julu City, Zhou Yin had no way to retreat, and we sent important ministers to contact him, promising to give him high-ranking officials and knighthoods, and make every effort to urge him to surrender. ”

As soon as Xiang Kang heard that he was in the middle of it, he immediately nodded in agreement, and suddenly remembered one thing, and hurriedly asked Uncle Zhou: "General Zhou, didn't you already catch Zhang Er's son Zhang Ao when you were in Jingcheng?" Did you bring him here? ”

"Returning to the king, bring it." Uncle Zhou immediately replied: "Before this, His Majesty also used this to try to contact Zhang Er and persuade him to surrender on his own initiative, but he did not reply. If his subordinates' guesses are correct, Zhang Er should have been mentally prepared to give up his son. ”

"He's such a son, would he be willing to give up easily? At his age, even if he has another son, I am afraid he will not be able to wait for the younger son to grow up. Xiang Kang smiled and said: "It's good to bring it, when we send troops to attack the city, remember to bring it by the way, Zhang Er's son should still be able to play a little role." ”

When Uncle Zhou agreed, Feng Zhong next to him also remembered something, and hurriedly interjected: "King, the last general was too excited just now and forgot to report to you, after the family of Liu Ji, the puppet king of Nanyang, was captured by General Peng Yue, he was also brought here from Pengcheng by the way. ”

"It's hard work, brother, after running such a long way, you still insist on escorting them here." Xiang Kang praised it with a smile, and then said: "Let's hold it for the time being, Liu Jipifu is ruthless, but he definitely doesn't care about the life or death of his family, but his family members use it well, and they may not be able to make a fuss about my grumpy overlord brother." ”

After Feng Zhong also agreed, Xiang Kang waved his hand very chic and said: "Everyone, you all know my temper, what red tape you don't like the most, and now the military situation is in full swing, the sooner we win the giant deer to lay the victory, the better, so the other polite etiquette will be waived, take advantage of the time is still in time, everyone will go back to prepare for the war now, we will have a meal together in the evening, by the way, we will launch a siege tomorrow!" ”

"No!" Han Jun Wenwu got up neatly and clasped his fists and sang a promise, and then Feng Zhong couldn't help but praise in his heart, "My brother is really getting more and more kingly, and turning enemies into friends with him back then is really the most right thing I have done in my life." ”