After being thrown out of the Han army camp by Xiang Kang's guards, he was afraid of the danger of sleeping outside the camp, and the poor General Xiang You could only rush back to the camp of the Western Chu army overnight to resume his life, but fortunately, his status was enough, even if he returned to the camp in the middle of the night, no one dared to stop him, and there was no danger all the way, and he finally arrived at his destination safely.

However, when Xiang You returned to the camp, it was already more than half of the third watch in the middle of the night, Xiang Yu had already fallen asleep, but fortunately, Xiang You didn't want to see Xiang Yu immediately, so he chose to go straight to Xiang Bo Xiang's camp tent, woke up the sleeping Xiang Bo, and first told Xiang Bo Xiang the specific situation and process of his envoy to the Han army camp - of course, Xiang You naturally concealed things related to Shan Youwei, and adapted it into Xiang Kang who hated himself for going to the Han army camp to surrender and insisted on killing himself.

Knowing that the deception had indeed been seen through by Xiang Kang, Master Xiang Boxiang was of course surprised, and when he heard that Xiang Kang had withdrawn the title reward promised to him, and asked the soldiers of the Han army not to show mercy to his subordinates on the battlefield, Master Xiang was even more angry and scolded his unfilial nephew again, "Little evil animal! The old man didn't kill you with a sword before, it was the old man who was blind! ”

Beating his chest, he regretted not killing the young Xiang Kang, and Master Xiang asked angrily, "Did that little evil beast say anything?" ”

"No, when he announced that he had withdrawn your reward and pardon from his father, he had the child driven out of the camp." Xiang You shook his head, and hurriedly said: "But when he left the camp, the child accidentally discovered an important situation, and his father also sent someone to deliver a letter to Xiang Kang's traitor tonight!" ”

"What? And this thing? Master Xiang's surprise was not trivial, and he hurriedly asked, "Tell me quickly, how did you find out about this situation?" ”

Xiang You agreed, and then carefully said that he had overheard that Old Man Fan had sent someone to contact Xiang Kang, and Master Xiang was so angry when he heard this, he couldn't help but roar again with a blue face, "Shameless old thief!" No wonder Xiang Kang, that little evil animal, was able to see through our deception and surrender plan, and after a long time, it turned out to be the secret of this shameless old thief! ”

"Father, what are we going to do next?" Xiang You asked tremblingly: "Xiang Kang, that traitor, has hated our father and son to the core, not only took back the title of reward given to you, but also wanted the Han thief army to kill us, and it is becoming more and more impossible for Brother to win this traitor now, what can our father and son do in the future?" ”

Xiang Bo blackened his face and thought nervously, and soon gritted his teeth and said: "These things can only be taken step by step, and we will talk about it later, the most important thing now is to quickly tell your brother about the situation and Fan Zeng's betrayal of us, go, follow me to see your brother immediately." ”

"Now?" Xiang You said with some surprise: "It's so late now, there's no need to tell my brother now, right?" Wouldn't it be the same to tell him after dawn? ”

"You've got in your head?" Master Xiang Boxiang was very experienced in slandering his colleagues, so he had no last resort, and roared angrily: "I'll go see your brother after dawn, when there are outsiders present to interject, so it's convenient for us to talk now?" ”

Xiang You thought about it, and quickly praised his father's thoughtfulness, and then he didn't even have time to change his clothes, and immediately came to see Xiang Yu with Master Xiang overnight, fortunately, Master Xiang's status was higher, and Xiang Yu was anxious to know the situation of Xiang You's envoy to the Han army camp, so he heard that Xiang You had returned, Xiang Yu didn't care about the late night, and immediately put on his clothes and stayed, and directly met Master Xiang's father and son in his bedroom, and as soon as they met, he couldn't wait to ask: "How is it?" Xiang Kang, that traitor, hasn't he seen through our plan yet? ”

The cruel truth quickly shattered Xiang Yu's dream, Xiang You had just finished saying that Xiang Kang had almost killed himself, Xiang Yu's face was already gloomy and dripping, and a raging fire erupted directly from his single eye, and it took a while to squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth, "Traitor, I really didn't fall for it!" ”

"My lord, this matter is no longer important." Xiang Bo hurriedly said: "Do you know, king, that our deception plan and discordant plan were discovered by Xiang Kang's little evil beast because there were traitors in our army and secretly told the Han thieves!" ”

"What? And what's going on? ”

Xiang Yu's surprise was naturally not trivial, and General Xiang You hurriedly told the old man Fan about sending someone to contact Xiang Kang, but unfortunately, after hearing this, Xiang Yu not only did not shout and kill the old man Fan, but on the contrary, he also lifted Xiang You up and roared: "Nonsense! How could a Father be faithful to me? ”

"The king, Weichen can't believe it." Xiang You said with a sad face: "But Weichen heard it clearly, the herald of the Han thief did say that the messenger of the father had arrived, and the camp gate officer of the Chinese army camp of the Han thief also personally rushed to the Chinese army tent of the Han thief to report to Xiang Kang and the traitor. ”

Xiang Yu glared at Xiang You angrily, still refusing to believe that Old Man Fan would secretly contact Xiang Kang behind his back, Xiang You was stunned by Xiang Yu, and hurriedly said: "Brother, such a big matter, the younger brother will never dare to joke with you, I really heard clearly, it was the father who sent someone to deliver a letter to Xiang Kang's traitor!" ”

Xiang Yu closed his eyes and calculated, and after a long time, Xiang Yu slammed Xiang You to the ground and roared: "Fool, you have been tricked!" Is there such a coincidence in the world that you happen to hear the news of the Messenger of the Father? This must be a thief who has arranged a show for you in advance, and use you to divide the relationship between the king and the father! ”

Xiang You nodded hurriedly, not daring to deny that there was no such possibility, and Master Xiang Boxiang next to him hated Old Man Fan, who was anxious to defect first and block his retreat, and said in a gloomy tone: "Virtuous nephew, I'm afraid this matter may not be a discordant plan of the Han thief." Please don't forget, Xiang Kang, that little evil animal, first ordered Yafu to go to the Han thief camp to negotiate, and then sent someone to send him a letter directly to inquire whether Uncle Zhou's letter was true or false, all of which can prove that the Han thief is going all out to rebel against Yafu, and now that our situation is here again, whether Yafu will be shaken, none of us dare to guarantee. ”

"Impossible!" Xiang Yu waved his hand arbitrarily, and said with a dark face: "Yafu is not that kind of person, otherwise, he would not have taken the initiative to hand over Xiang Kang's traitor's letter and messenger to me!" ”

"That's probably because the Father knows I'm outside his tent." Master Xiang pointed out an important possibility and said: "I was worried that the matter would be revealed, so I hurriedly took the initiative to hand over the letter and messenger of Xiang Kang's traitor. Afterwards, as long as he explained a little to Xiang Kang's traitor, Xiang Kang's traitor would definitely not mind such a trivial matter. ”

Xiang Yu was silent for a while before asking, "Didn't you send someone to secretly stare at Yafu?" Did you find anything out of the ordinary? ”

"Virtuous nephew, it's good that it's that easy." Master Xiang smiled bitterly and said: "Father's power is so great, he can command all the generals and soldiers in the army, when you have something to go out, even your guards have to listen to his command, how can I completely keep an eye on him?" He just needs to find an excuse and send someone to send a letter to Xiang Kang's traitor, isn't it just playing? ”

Xiang Yu's face became even more ugly, and he said viciously after a long time: "Without real evidence, I absolutely don't believe that Yafu will betray me!" ”

Knowing Xiang Yu's trust and dependence on Old Man Fan, Master Xiang, who had been a mortal enemy with Old Man Fan since he knew him, of course he wouldn't expect to take revenge with just a few words, so he changed his tone and said: "Virtuous nephew, if you insist that the second father can't have different intentions, then the old man will not object. But virtuous nephew, you'd better control your father's power a little, the situation in the world has reached this point, and we will definitely only get more and more sad in the future, if we let the Han thief's side know our internal situation and military and political decisions well, I am afraid we will have no hope. ”

Xiang Yu pondered with a dark face, and only said after a while: "You guys go back first, let me think about it carefully." ”

Even Master Xiang didn't dare to disobey Xiang Yu's order, of course, Xiang Bo and his son immediately surrendered, but Xiang Yu no longer had the intention to sleep, sitting in the sleeping tent just kept thinking and thinking, after a period of time, Xiang Yu simply asked the guard to bring wine, and drank the stuffy wine alone, the expression on his face was still cloudy and uncertain, and the changes continued......

Finally, when the sky was twilight and the dawn shot into Xiang Yu's sleeping tent, Xiang Yu suddenly slammed the wine glass on the ground, and made up his mind completely......

After another period of time, after hurriedly eating breakfast, as usual, Old Man Fan came to Xiang Yu's Chinese army marshal account with a bunch of military Chinese books as usual, and went through the motions as usual to ask Xiang Yu to sign these official documents with seals, but to Old Man Fan's great surprise, Xiang Yu signed directly without looking at it for the first time this time, on the contrary, he picked up several of the most important official documents in the army and read them carefully, and refused to write down the official documents that Old Man Fan had made a decision on his behalf to formally approve.

I don't know the inside story, Old Man Fan was secretly a little happy for a while, thinking that it was the iron tree that blossomed and the horse grew horns, and Xiang Yu finally made a little progress. But what made Old Man Fan dumbfounded was that after finally approving the official document he had drafted, Xiang Yu actually said: "Father, you are old, don't be too tired. In this way, in the future, the appointment of generals of the rank of 1,000 commanders and above in the army will be decided by the king himself, and you will not interfere. Also, the official document sent from the rear of Pengcheng was directly handed over to Kui Che and Wu Shi to deal with, so you don't have to bother. ”

Hearing this, not only was Old Man Fan dumbfounded, but the civilian officials of the Western Chu Army, Kuai Che and Wu She, who happened to be present, were also dumbfounded, not understanding why Xiang Yu suddenly took away power from Old Man Fan. Then, Old Man Fan thought that Xiang Yu was really understanding himself and wanted to help him reduce his burden, so he hurriedly said: "Thank you to the king, but it doesn't matter, the old minister can still hold up this old bone, even if he continues to handle these things, it will have no effect." ”

"People in their seventies, let's take care." Xiang Yu's smile was obviously a little reluctant, and he said: "By the way, otherwise, the miscellaneous matters of food, grass and ordnance in the army will also be handed over to the king's Uncle Ji to be responsible for by the way, and you don't have to worry about it, Father, in the future, you will concentrate on giving advice to this king and help this king decide on strategic and tactical plans." ”

Hearing this, Kui Che, Wu Shi and the others didn't even dare to take a breath of air, and they also understood more that Xiang Yu was indeed deliberately reducing the power in Old Man Fan's hands, and Old Man Fan finally came to his senses, and after looking Xiang Yu up and down in great surprise, Old Man Fan also asked directly: "King, is something wrong?" ”

"No, nothing happened?" Xiang Yu denied it, pretended to yawn again, and said: "This king didn't sleep well last night, and I want to go and rest again, so you can go back and do your own business." ”

After that, Xiang Yu got up and walked away, leaving Old Man Fan stammering in the big tent of the Chinese army, not understanding why Xiang Yu suddenly took away the many powers in his hands, and Kui Che and Wu Shi on the other side quietly glanced at each other, and then said together in their hearts: "Oh no, something big must happen." ”

In the end, according to Xiang Yu's order, Old Man Fan returned to his camp in a daze, but just when Old Man Fan was more and more puzzled, something almost made him angry happened - Xiang Yu actually sent another team of guards, under the pretext that he wanted to see it in person, and took away almost all the important military intelligence documents in Old Man Fan's account! Old Man Fan was of course furious when he saw it, and simply asked directly: "Did the king say when he would send these official documents back?" ”

"Returning to my father, the king did not say." Xiang Yu's guard, who led the team, replied with his hand, and said cautiously: "Father, the king also asked the villain to give you a message, he heard that your original guards did not serve you well, and decided to replace all your guards, and someone will replace your guards in a while." ”

Old man Fan opened his mouth wide, and only after a while did he laugh and say, "Go back and tell the king, just say thank you for the old man, thank him for his concern!" ”

The guards sent by Xiang Yu also knew that this was definitely not normal, so they didn't dare to say anything, but they hurriedly sang a promise and agreed, and then hurriedly left with the important official document of the Western Chu Army that Xiang Yu had named, leaving Old Man Fan with a blue face and a violent heaval in the camp tent that suddenly became much empty.

After a period of time, Xiang Yu not only really sent a team of guards to replace the right-hand man who had followed him for many years, but the new team of guards sent was actually all the soldiers under the command of Master Xiang Boxiang, the old man Fan's sworn enemy, the chief of the guard, and one of Xiang You's many wives and brothers!

Seeing Xiang You's brother-in-law standing in front of him with a smile on his face, saying that he would be responsible for serving him in the future, even if Old Man Fan was dull, he understood that Xiang Yu had become extremely suspicious of himself, and he would never trust himself as before. And as we all know, Old Man Fan was originally hot-tempered, and after receiving such obvious suspicion, Old Man Fan was naturally even more unbearable, and after thinking about it for a long time with a black face, Old Man Fan simply stood up, pushed away the new guards lined up in front of him, and strode out of his camp.

Under the follow-up and monitoring of the new guards, Old Man Fan rushed directly to Xiang Yu's tent with a quick pace, and then without waiting for the guards in front of the tent to pass through, he directly pushed the guards into the tent, and yelled angrily: "Get out!" The old man wants to see the king! ”

Maybe it was fate, or after rushing directly into Xiang Yu's tent, Old Man Fan found that Master Xiang Boxiang, who was the same as himself, also happened to be in the tent, and was still muttering something to Xiang Yu sneakily. Then seeing that Old Man Fan rushed in directly with an ugly face, even Xiang Yu was slightly taken aback, and blurted out, "Father, what are you doing?" ”

"There is a military situation to discuss with you, the king." Old man Fan said with a dark face: "Didn't you say it when you took away the power of the old minister today, the king?" Let the minister concentrate on helping you make suggestions and make strategic and tactical plans in the future, and the minister will act according to the order, so here it is now. ”

Father laughed. Master Xiang took over the conversation and said with a smile: "The king trusts you so much, how can he take away your power?" The king is just considerate of your old age and infirmity, and wants others to share a little for you. ”

Old Man Fan didn't bother to pay attention to Master Xiang's smile and hide the knife, just sat opposite Xiang Yu, and said very directly: "King, we have collapsed on the battlefield of Qidi, and after the northern army of the Han thieves has freed up their hands, they will definitely take advantage of the situation to enter our hinterland and cut off our connection with the rear of Pengcheng, leaving us with little time." Lao Chen believes that our only choice now can only be to quickly and directly withdraw to Pengcheng, lengthen the food supply of the Han thieves in exchange for time, and then gather the forces of Jiangdong and Huainan to defend Pengcheng with all their might! Lao Chen hopes that you will stop having illusions and act according to the plan immediately, you say. ”

"Withdraw directly to Pengcheng, then what about our Dong County, Dang County and Chen County?" Xiang Yu hesitated and said, "With so much city land, can it be directly given to the Han thieves?" ”

"Is there any hope that we can keep these places?" Old man Fan sneered and asked, and said: "Over the years, our Western Chu army has become weaker and weaker, but the Han thieves have become stronger and stronger, and now all the princes of the world have fallen to the Han thieves except for a Tian Heng who is isolated in Linzi and is still breathing, and the hundreds of thousands of Han thieves' army is unstoppable, what hope do we have to keep these places?" Since you can't keep it, it's better to just give it up. ”

Xiang Yu couldn't refute it, and Master Xiang next to him said in a weird way: "Father Ya is really generous enough, since you can't keep it, why don't you just give up?" Has the father forgotten how much effort and how many people died in the first place to take these lands and cities? ”

"Then what do you think Master Xiang should do?" Old Man Fan sneered and asked, "If Master Xiang has a better way to deal with the current situation, the old man is willing to listen to your decision." ”

Master Xiang, whose strategic and tactical values were almost negative, was speechless, and only after a moment did he smile and say: "Our king will naturally have a decision in this matter, and the old minister dares to speak indiscriminately and interfere with the king's wise decision-making?" ”

"Wise decision-making?" Old Man Fan was extremely angry, so he simply laughed out loud, and then said to Xiang Yu, whose face had already begun to turn blue: "King, you decide, whether to adopt the old minister's plan?" If you adopt it, the old minister will go back to Pengcheng with you, and if you don't adopt it, ....... ”

"What is the father going to do?" Master Xiang Boxiang hurriedly asked.

"Then please ask the king to allow the old man to return to his hometown!" Old man Fan blurted out, and said: "The old man is incompetent, and he has not assisted the king, so that the situation of our Western Chu army has deteriorated to this point, as an apology, the old man asked the king to cut me down to the people, and let the old man return to his hometown to think about it!" ”

I never expected that Old Man Fan would be so angry that he would resign directly, Xiang Yu was suddenly a little in a hurry, but Master Xiang next to him was overjoyed, and said in surprise: "Father, how can you go?" Now that our situation is so critical, and the king needs you to help him with advice and strategy, how can you say that you will resign? What should we do if this calls our king? ”

"Master Xiang, don't pretend." Old Man Fan couldn't bear it anymore and roared: "Isn't it your long-standing wish to drive the old decay away from the king?" The old man has fulfilled your wish today, and please stop pretending to be pretend! ”

Master Xiang hurriedly shouted loudly, and asked Xiang Yu to testify on his behalf, proving that he never wanted to drive Old Man Fan away, but Old Man Fan didn't bother to pay attention to Master Xiang anymore, just turned to Xiang Yu again, and said loudly: "King, please decide, is it to withdraw to Pengcheng immediately?" Or let the old go home? You decide with one word! ”

Unlike in history, although Xiang Yu also had serious suspicions about Old Man Fan, because of the current critical situation of the Western Chu Army, Xiang Yu did not dare to easily decide to take Old Man Fan, his right-hand man, away. Master Xiang on the other side saw Xiang Yu's thoughts, in order to have the opportunity to continue to slander and slander, prompting Xiang Yu to make up his mind to let Old Man Fan get out, Master Xiang's eyes rolled, and he hurriedly said: "Father, how can you tell our king to make a decision easily for such a big matter?" Well, let's think about it for one night, and we'll give you an answer tomorrow, what do you think? ”

Old man Fan was still too lazy to deal with Master Xiang, with a pair of cloudy eyes, just staring at Xiang Yu who was sitting opposite. But what made Old Man Fan completely dead was that Xiang Yu not only did not categorically refuse his resignation as he imagined, but also apologized to him and returned the power of the Western Chu Army that he had held for a long time, on the contrary, after thinking about it for a long time, Xiang Yu also said with a hesitant expression: "Father, this matter is too big, let this king think about it for a night, and give you an answer tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, Master Xiang was of course overjoyed, and immediately said viciously in his heart: "Old man, if the old man doesn't persuade the virtuous nephew to tell you to get out of here tonight, the old man will not have a surname in the future, but your surname!" ”

Still hearing this, Old Man Fan suddenly seemed to be ten years old, and then slowly stood up and said slowly: "Okay, then the king, you should think about it carefully." ”

After that, Old Man Fan staggered a little and turned around and walked out, and when he walked to the front of the tent, Old Man Fan turned around again and said to Master Xiang Boxiang: "Master Xiang, I heard that you have been complaining behind your back, complaining that your brother Wu Anjun is too good to Xiang Kang and a thief. In fact, you are wrong, you are the best uncle who is really the traitor to Xiang Kang. ”

After saying this, Old Man Fan threw his sleeves out of the account, Xiang Yu couldn't bear it in his heart, and quickly got up and wanted to catch up, Master Xiang, who was indeed better at Xiang Kang, hurriedly stopped, and couldn't wait to say: "King, Father Ya is excited now, and it is possible to do anything, let's let him calm down first, and then decide what to do." ”

Unable to resist his uncle's repeated persuasion, Xiang Yu still sat down again, and completely missed the last opportunity to leave Old Man Fan behind.

In fact, there was no need for Master Xiang Boxiang to try his best to persuade him to slander, it was just the evening of the same day, when Xiang Yu was still thinking about whether he should go all out to keep Old Man Fan, Old Man Fan, who was extremely disheartened, had already packed his luggage, left the Western Chu Army camp alone in a light car, and disappeared into the night. And when Xiang You's brother-in-law reported the situation to Master Xiang, Master Xiang not only suppressed the news and did not report it to Xiang Yu, but also ordered: "Tomorrow, when the king asks, you will say that the father went in the direction of the Han thief camp." ”