Chapter 212: Soft bones also have a big effect
Can't blame Wang Bang for being so angry, in the reply to Xiang Kang, Li Cai, the precious son of Li Xin, a famous general of the Qin army, was revealed, first scolded Hu Hai for tyranny and lewdness, perverse behavior, Zhao Gao messed with power and abused power, cruelty to Zhongliang, and frankly admitted that because he looked at Hu Hai and Zhao Gao unpleasantly, he also understood that Qin State would be destroyed by the six countries outside the Guanguan sooner or later, and he had already betrayed Qin, and expressed his willingness to help Xiang Kang take Wuguan, and promised that he would find a way to deceive Wang Bang to his camp as soon as possible to take it, so that Xiang Kang could easily seize Wuguan. If this move could not be successful, then when Xiang Kang sent troops to attack Wuguan, Li Cai pretended to send troops to reinforce Wuguan, took the opportunity to deceive the door and open the door to cooperate with the outside, and attacked the defenders of Wuguan before and after, and directly sent Wuguan to Xiang Kang.
In addition, in order to show Xiang Kang his sincerity in surrendering, Li Cai not only wrote this letter of surrender that was enough for him to copy his family and destroy his family, but also stamped his seal on the letter of surrender.
At the same time, Wang Bang was angry, in addition to asking the unlucky young marshal army messenger to be taken down for careful torture, he immediately ordered the closure of the west gate of Wuguan, which had been opened to Li Caijun, and explained that no one was allowed to open it without his own personal order, and at the same time immediately summoned several of his cronies and subordinates to discuss countermeasures with them.
Like Wang Bang, after reading the letter written by Li Cai himself, several of Wang Bang's henchmen were also furious, and they scolded Li Cai for being ungrateful, betraying the country and seeking glory, but there were also more rational people among them, at least after Wang Bang's subordinate Gu Chuan calmed down, he soon found that something was wrong, and hurriedly said to Wang Bang: "General, this is not right?" General Li Cai didn't show any signs of wavering before, why did Xiang Kang Xiao'er just send someone to bring him a letter of persuasion to surrender and give him a little gift, and he agreed to surrender so easily? ”
"Li Caipifu said in the letter that he has long been dissatisfied with our emperor and prime minister, and has long planned to surrender and commit treason, so what is the wonder of agreeing so easily?" Wang Bang asked rhetorically, and said: "Besides, since ancient times, that traitor didn't pretend to be loyal before being exposed, who would be stupid enough to go around saying that he had plans to surrender and commit treason?" ”
"But the Admiral still finds it strange." Gu Chuan still didn't want to believe it easily, and said: "General Li Xin is a famous general of our Great Qin, the first emperor treated him very kindly, the family has been favored by the country, and he has been a gentleman for a long time, no matter how conscienceless his son is, he should not agree to surrender to the thief army so easily." If this letter alone assumes that he has secretly surrendered to the enemy, the last general still feels that it is too arbitrary. ”
Qin Shi Huang was indeed quite good to Li Xin, even if he was defeated in Chu and lost 70,000 troops, Qin Shi Huang did not hold Li Xin accountable too much, and continued to reuse Li Xin in the war to destroy Yan and Qi. Considering this situation, Wang Bang was inevitably a little shaken, so he turned to several other cronies and subordinates and asked, "What do you think?" ”
Several other cronies were not as knowledgeable as Gu Chuan, and they did not dare to express their opinions casually, only Ning Zhi, who had fled back to Wuguan from Suspension Bridge Ridge the day before yesterday, proposed: "General Wang, why don't you find Li Cai's document to carefully compare the handwriting and the seal to see if this letter is forged." ”
"I've doubled it up, and it's exactly the same."
Wang Bang snorted coldly, and asked the soldiers to take out the letter that Li Cai had contacted Wuguan before, and handed it to several cronies to compare it with the letter of surrender written by Li Cai himself, and after repeated comparisons, he found that the handwriting and seal were really exactly the same, Ning Zhi couldn't help but be even more surprised, and blurted out: "The handwriting and the seal are really exactly the same, does Li Caipifu really plan to surrender to the thief army?" ”
"It is also possible that the thief army forged it and used it to frame General Li Cai." Gu Chuan still didn't dare to be gullible, and said: "If the thief army gets the pattern of General Li's letter and seal, it will not be difficult to find a master of Wenmo and Jinshi to imitate it, and it will not be difficult to forge a letter. ”
"But how do we prove that this epistle is a forgery of thieves?" Ning Zhi asked rhetorically, and said: "If this letter is true, Li Caipifu really intends to surrender to the thief army, and we don't take precautions, and when the thief army launches an attack on the city, Li Caipifu suddenly attacked, how can we resist?" ”
Gu Chuan had no way to prove that this letter was forged by someone else, so he could only keep his mouth shut, and the result was Li Cai's bad luck, at this time, a personal soldier suddenly came to the hall and hugged his fist to Wang Bang and said: "General, the envoy of the thief army has been recruited, and he admits that the letter was handed over to him by Li Caipifu." ”
Before the words of the pro-soldier were finished, there was already a big uproar in the hall, and Wang Bang was even more shocked and angry, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, bring that thief envoy up, I will interrogate it personally!" ”
The soldiers agreed, and immediately went down to the hall to give the order, and then in a moment, the young marshal's military envoy, who was already covered in bruises, was escorted to the hall, and as soon as he went to the hall, he lay on the ground, crying and begging desperately, "General, stop fighting!" Please, don't fight! I'll recruit, I'll recruit anything for the little ones, you can recruit whatever you want me to do! ”
"Tell me, what the hell is going on!" Wang Bang shouted.
"That letter was handed over to the villain by General Li Cai." The unlucky young marshal army envoy cried loudly, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "After General Li Cai saw our right general's letter of persuasion, he immediately said that he had long wanted to surrender to our Chu State, and then wrote that letter, let the villain hide in the mezzanine of his clothes, and bring it back to our right general, and he also let the villain lie to you, saying that he drove out after scolding the villain, so as not to make you suspicious." ”
After crying and crying, the young marshal's envoy kowtowed desperately again, and cried and said: "General, the little one has said everything, can you let the little one go?" The villain is a messenger, the two countries are fighting, if you don't kill the envoy, you may also have to send envoys to contact other armies in the future, you don't want your envoy and the villain to end together, right? ”
"And so it was!" Wang Bang's forehead began to jump violently, and he roared: "Escort this thief envoy down, lock him up, and prepare for him to confront Li Caipifu!" ”
"Wait!"
Gu Chuan hurriedly stopped, then walked quickly to the young marshal's envoy, squatted down and asked him, "What you just said is really the truth?" Is it that you can't stand the punishment and make up lies to deceive us into not beating you? ”
"You know and ask? If I don't make up nonsense, can you stop and not beat me? The young marshal army envoy wailed in his heart, but when he saw Wang Bang staring in the hall, the unlucky envoy was afraid that he would be dragged down and beaten and tortured again, so he could only quickly shake his head, "No! No! The little one can swear to the sky, what the villain said is really the truth, and that letter was really given to me by General Li Cai! ”
Gu Chuan continued to ask uneasily, but the messenger who was afraid of continuing to be tortured did not dare to change his words, and finally Wang Bang was tired of hearing it, so he simply roared: "Gu Chuan, are you enough?" What benefits did Li Caipifu give you, and you insisted on helping him speak? Do you want to report to Li Caipifu now? ”
"The last general will not dare."
Gu Chuan was frightened into a cold sweat, and quickly got up to apologize to Wang Bang, but Wang Bang didn't bother to pay attention to him, but just ordered someone to temporarily detain the unlucky young marshal army envoy, and then shouted: "Taking advantage of Li Caipifu's lack of time to know the situation now, immediately send someone to contact him, and say that I will discuss with him the matter of joining forces to resist the thief army, trick him into Wuguan and take him directly, clean up the hidden dangers first, and then slowly deal with the rest of the matter!" ”