Coincidentally, on the first day of Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang's visit to Hangu Pass, Xiang Yu's order to Liu Laosan was sent to Hangu Pass first, requiring Liu Laosan to lead the men and horses of the headquarters to serve as the vanguard of the crusade against the young marshal's army, requiring Liu Laosan to immediately enter the army to attack Guanzhong, and requiring Liu Laosan to take at least three Guanzhong cities, and then Xiang Yu could not investigate Liu Laosan's fault in attacking Hangu Pass without authorization, and fulfill his promise to crown Liu Laosan as the king of Nanyang.

In addition, Xiang Yu also sent a messenger to contact Xiang Kang by the way, carrying Xiang Yu's letter straight to Xianyang to condemn Xiang Kang for claiming the king without authorization, and also took the initiative to provoke the anti-Qin coalition army to merge with the young marshal's arms, and used this as an excuse to declare war on Xiang Kang, demanding that Xiang Kang immediately lay down his arms and surrender, and took the initiative to hand over all the city land taken by the young marshal's army after the westward expedition.

As soon as he listened to Xiang Yu's order, the treacherous Liu Laosan immediately understood that Xiang Yu was preparing to force himself to die in vain, and also used himself to further expand the scale of the Chu army, so that Xiang Yu could have more excuses to clean up his cousins of the same clan, if he refused to comply, not only would the Nanyang throne be hopeless, but Xiang Yu would definitely take action to clean himself up immediately on the grounds of violating the military order.

Fortunately, since the moment when the dog jumped over the wall to provoke the Chu army and first provoked the Chu army, Liu Laosan was already prepared to give up all the priority to save his life, although he was also very sorry for the Nanyang throne that passed by, but in order to survive, Liu Laosan could only choose to work and not make any efforts, planning to pretend to enter the military pass, and then quickly withdraw to Hangu Pass when the situation was not right, under the pretext of protecting the anti-Qin coalition army's march road, he would not come out of Hangu Pass, and at the same time bribe more and more flattering villains around Xiang Yu at any cost, and curry favor with Xiang Yu through them, save your life and your army, and finally slowly find a way to make a comeback.

The eldest husband can stretch and bend, stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, between his life and the throne, the realist Liu Laosan certainly knows how to choose.

However, Liu Laosan also underestimated Xiang Kang's singleness, and only a day later, Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang came to Hangu Pass with Xiang Kang's letter, claiming that the matter of Hangu Pass was all because the Qin army general Wang Muli deliberately made a ghost, wanted to provoke the Chu army and avenge the violent Qin court, and created the responsibility for the violent Qin court to take advantage of the chaos, and put all the responsibility on Wang Muli, the Qin army general who had been killed, and was forced to admit that Liu Laosan had no responsibility in this matter, and in turn apologized to Liu Laosan, who took the lead.

Of course, Liu Laosan immediately understood that Xiang Kang had softened, and in order to calm down the incident, he planned to bow his head to Xiang Yu at all costs to sue for peace, and immediately regained his greed, first accepted Xiang Kang's explanation on the spot, promised to temporarily stop fighting with the young marshal army before Xiang Yu made a decision, and personally sent Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang out of the east gate of Hangu Pass, allowing Li and Zhang Liang to go east to contact Xiang Yu, and promised to let the messenger of the young marshal army pass through Hangu Pass freely, so that Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang could contact Xiang Kang at any time.

Then, just after sending away Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang, Liu Laosan immediately summoned Cao Shen Xiao He and a few other cronies, and instructed: "Hurry up and write a letter to Xiang Kang for me, tell him that Xiang Yu'er wants me to take the three cities in Guanzhong, and then say that Xiang Yu's military order is difficult to disobey, and I can't help but act according to the order, and persuade him to take the initiative to give us the three cities of Ning Qin, Huaide and Lian Jin, so that I can give me the errand, and I can also take the opportunity to help him prove that the matter of Hangu Pass is all a ghost of the violent Qin general, and do my best to help him and Xiang Yu'er reconcile as before." ”

Before Liu Laosan finished speaking, Cao Shen and Xiao He had already widened their eyes and exclaimed together: "How is this possible? We laid down Hangu Pass and took the lead in provoking the infighting between the Xiang brothers, Xiang Kang Xiao'er must hate us now that he must have eaten our hearts, how could he take the initiative to give up three cities to us? ”

"How could it be?" Liu Laosan asked with a sneer, and said: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er didn't dare to start a war with Xiang Yu Xiao'er, and even the means of framing the violent Qin generals were forced to be used, and he took the initiative to send someone to Xiang Yu Xiao'er to sue for peace, and he must be psychologically prepared to sacrifice the land of the city. ”

"Anyway, it will have to be handed over sooner or later, what's the difference between paying it now and handing it over in the future?" Speaking of this, Liu Laosan's expression was extremely proud, and he said with a cruel smile: "Leave it to me now, and let me help him sue for peace, if you don't give me this face, Xiang Kang Xiaoer will definitely have to worry that I will deliberately make trouble and sabotage his plan for peace." With such priorities, Xiang Kang weighed it clearly. ”

Although he has been accustomed to Liu Laosan's hooligan methods since he was a child, but at this time, Cao Shen and Xiao He and the others were still completely stunned by Liu Laosan's words, and after a long time, Xiao He said weakly: "Pei Gong, although you may have hope of success if you do this, Xiang Kang Xiao'er will not let you go in the future." ”

"If I don't do this, Xiang Kang Xiao'er will let me go in the future?" Liu Laosan asked rhetorically, and said with a sneer: "The matter of Hangu Pass, Xiang Kang Xiao'er will definitely know the truth in a short time, maybe he already knows the truth now, and he has long wanted to skin me and cramp me, and the car will be cracked and executed!" Don't worry about a lot of debts, since the wood is already in the boat, we will simply continue to offend Xiang Kang Xiao'er to death, take advantage of his desperate pursuit of peace now, and force him to take the initiative to hand over the three cities, so that Xiang Yu'er can't find an excuse to take off my throne! ”

Thinking about it, this is also the truth, anyway, Xiang Kang has been offended to death, so why should he be afraid to continue to offend Xiang Kang to death? At that moment, Xiao He immediately put pen to paper and wrote a letter to Xiang Kang for Liu Laosan, on the condition of helping Xiang Kang to make peace with Xiang Yu, coercing and inducing Xiang Kang to take the initiative to hand over the three cities of Guanzhong and help Liu Laosan complete the military orders explained by Xiang Yu. Then Liu Laosan sent his staff Lu Jia as an envoy to immediately rush to Xianyang with a letter to rob Xiang Kang.

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Not to mention Liu Laosan's robbery and extortion, just talking about the situation on Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang's side, it was still after rushing to Luoyang City, Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang knew that Xiang Yu had taken Luoyang Jiancheng by storm, and entered the Xingyang battlefield west with the main force of the anti-Qin coalition army. He led the main force to besiege Aocang.

At this time, the total strength of the anti-Qin coalition army has reached 350,000, if you add the surrendered Qin army, the total strength of Xiang Yu's command is directly more than 400,000 mark, the advantage of troops is huge, and it is of course a correct strategy to divide troops to attack Xingyang and Aocang at the same time. But after knowing this, Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang immediately understood that Xiang Yu wanted to save time and eradicate the remnants of the Qin army in Sanchuan County as soon as possible, so that the anti-Qin coalition army could free up their hands to enter the pass as soon as possible, so Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang did not dare to slack off, and immediately rushed to Aocang as soon as possible to request an audience with Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu's reaction made Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang even more shocked, cousin Xiang Kang sent an envoy to ask to see, Xiang Yu actually used the excuse of busy military affairs, did not meet Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang at the first time, just asked the two to stay in the army temporarily, and then summoned them when he was free. Li Shiqi and Zhang Liang had no choice but to discuss countermeasures in a hurry, and then decided that Li Shiqi would go to see Cao Jiao, and begged Cao Zhi to help him speak, while Zhang Liang also carried a heavy gift and came to see Xiang Bo under the banner of visiting old friends, begging Xiang Bo to let Xiang Kang go, not to deliberately make trouble and make an obstruction.

Fortunately, although Master Xiang Boxiang and his unfilial nephew Xiang Kang did not agree with each other, and hated Xiang Kang deeply, he never forgot Zhang Liang's kindness to him, and when he heard that Zhang Liang came to visit, Xiang Bo not only came to greet Zhang Liang in front of the Chinese army camp in person, but also complained as soon as they met: "Ofan, what kind of confusion are you making?" As a Korean Situ, how could he be a messenger for Xiang Kang, a traitor, and come to Ao Cang for hundreds of miles to speak for him? Have you forgotten what he did to us when we were in Huaisi? ”

"Uncle forgive the sin, when he was in Yingchuan County, our South Korean army was at the end of the road, almost all of them were wiped out, and it was all thanks to the righteous help of the right general to save us from the Korean disaster, and I owed him a great favor, so he begged for it, and the younger brother had to run for him."

Zhang Liang replied while saluting Uncle Xiang, who pulled him up and walked to the camp, saying, "Do you still need so many courtesies between you and me?" Go quickly, and go to my tent to drink, but I have a word first, don't speak for that little brute, and I won't listen to what I say. ”

Zhang Liang smiled helplessly, he didn't understand why Xiang Bo hated Xiang Kang so much, but out of duty, after Xiang Bo entered his military tent, Zhang Liang quickly asked the servant to bring a package, opened it in front of Xiang Bo, revealing a bag full of jewelry and jade, and said: "Uncle, this is someone entrusted me to give it to you." ”

Glancing at the bag of jewelry and jade, Xiang Bo sneered and said, "If it was given to me by someone else, thank him for me, if it was given to me by that little beast, please take it back from the ovary, I don't want to dirty my hands." ”

"Uncle, why are you doing this?" Zhang Liang persuaded: "General Right was a little disrespectful to you before, but those are all in the past, after all, he is your junior, a cousin raised by you and Wu Xinjun, flesh and blood are connected, broken bones and tendons, why do you have to be angry with him?" ”

"Don't mention the past, I'll be angry when I mention it!" Xiang Bo said angrily: "That ungrateful little brute, disrespectful and unfilial to the old man, repeatedly offended everywhere, the old man didn't have his nephew!" This time, he even dared to claim the title of king in Guanzhong without authorization, in a vain attempt to monopolize the fertile land in Guanzhong, and the great rebellion was to the extreme, our Xiang family did not have him as a sinful species! ”

"Uncle, misunderstanding, you really misunderstood, about the right general being the king in Guanzhong, I can testify, it is absolutely nothing! You can't even believe me, can you? ”

Zhang Liang hurriedly explained, according to Xiang Kang's request, he pushed all the affairs of Hangu Pass to the poor Qin army general Wang Muli with a clear conscience, and presented a letter written by Xiang Kang to Xiang Bo, and begged Xiang Bo not to deliberately obstruct Xiang Kang and help others slander and frame Xiang Kang who was wronged to the extreme.

It's a pity that Master Xiang Boxiang really hates Xiang Kang too much, hates Xiang Kang's unfilial piety to his opponents, and hates Xiang Kang's refusal to dedicate his military power to himself before, resulting in the fact that the world is about to be feuded, but he has no hope of being crowned. So no matter how Zhang Liang explained, Xiang Bo blindly sneered and said: "Find a good excuse, see that the situation is wrong, so quickly find someone to be a scapegoat, he thinks that the old man is a three-year-old child, will he believe his nonsense?" ”

"Uncle, why do you have to hold on to General Right?" Zhang Liang said bitterly: "Why don't you want to think about it, if General Right really wants to swallow Guanzhong alone, why didn't he hurry up to recapture Hangu Pass at this time?" Why did you send me and Mr. Li to explain to the former general? ”

"That's because he knows very well that he is not the opponent of the old man's nephew Xiang Yu." Xiang Bo sneered and said, "Otherwise, can he be so low to the old man?" ”

Zhang Liang continued to persuade again, but Xiang Bo didn't listen at all, waved his hand and said: "Ofan, don't say more, let me tell you the truth, crusading against that rebellious little beast is not only my idea, but also Fan Zeng and Cao Ji's idea, the leaders of the coalition forces of various countries also support us in doing so, and my virtuous nephew Xiang Yu has already promised them that after retaking Guanzhong, the hundreds of years of treasury of the tyrannical Qin court will be divided equally among the princes of the six countries." As long as we take Aocang and Xingyang, we will immediately march west to defeat that evil animal! ”

"Oops." Zhang Liangzhi complained bitterly, and said secretly: "I didn't expect Xiang Yu's attitude to be so resolute, in order to encourage the princes to support him in the army, he actually promised to divide the hundreds of years of treasures of the tyrannical Qin court. ”

"And." Xiang Bo even threatened Zhang Liang in turn, and said: "Zifang, you'd better make it clear to you King Han as soon as possible, when we enter the military pass, he had better take you to take the initiative to act as an internal response for us, otherwise, not only will he be unable to protect the throne, but he may also be liquidated as that little brute and the same party." At that time, even if I wanted to speak for you, I was afraid that I wouldn't be that sure. ”

Encountering such an unreasonable master as Xiang Bo, Zhang Liang was completely helpless, no matter how he moved his affection for Xiang Bo, knew his reasoning, and hated Xiang Kang to the bone, Xiang Bo resolutely refused to listen, did not enter, persuaded a lot, Xiang Bo even started a fire, Zhang Liang was completely helpless, and he could only obediently close his mouth, planning to wait for Xiang Bo's anger to dissipate, and then slowly find a way to persuade him.

It's a pity that Zhang Liang never waited for this opportunity, when it was slightly dark, because Xiang Yu sent someone to summon Xiang Bo to post the account, Zhang Liang could only obediently say goodbye and return to the guest tent to rest. - By the way, Zhang Liang did not take away the gift that Xiang Kang gave to Xiang Bo, and Xiang Bo also forgot to remind Zhang Liang to take it away.

When Zhang Liang returned to the guest tent, Li Shiqi, who was in charge of contacting Cao Qi, had also returned one step ahead of schedule, and then just looking at Zhang Liang's expression, Li Shiqi understood that the situation was not good, and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Zifang, did you run in vain?" ”

Zhang Liang nodded helplessly and said, "Don't listen to anything, General Right really offended him too hard before, and he refused to listen to any explanation from me." Mr. Li, how are you doing? ”

"It's not good." Li Shiqi's tone was also helpless, and said: "The old man has already hinted that he can give up half of the land and city in Guanzhong, but Cao Ji refuses to let go, insisting that our right general hand over the military power and all the land and city, and promised that if the right general does it, when the world is divided in the future, he can give us the right general a marquis and reward the fief of the food and eup, otherwise we must be held accountable for the crime of claiming the king without authorization." If the old man expected it to be true, this should be an idea that they have already discussed, and they want to take the opportunity to take away all the military power and real power of our right general, and force our right general to live in seclusion. ”

Zhang Liang was silent, and only said after a while: "I can only count on Fan Zuoshi, he is the person recruited by the right general for Wu Xinjun, and he should have some old feelings for the right general, you and I will see him together tomorrow and persuade him to set up a party for the former general, don't force the right general too hard." ”

When Li Shiqi nodded in agreement, the servant brought by Li Shiqi next to him suddenly spoke, and said cautiously: "Doctor Li, Zhang Situ, I have something to report to you, after you left today, Fan Zeng Fan Zuoshi sent someone to call us all to question." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhang Liang was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What did Fan Zuoshi ask you?" ”

"Ask us what General Right did in Guanzhong, and also about the attitude of the people of Zhongqin towards our General Right." Answered truthfully from the man.

"And how did you answer?" Zhang Liang hurriedly asked.

"Of course, the little ones are answering truthfully." Congren replied truthfully and said: "The little one said that our right general did not claim the title of king in Guanzhong, but only made three chapters of the law with the Qin people in Guanzhong, and did not commit any crimes against the Qin people in Guanzhong and the tyrannical Qin officials Qiu, and all parts of the central government took the initiative to surrender, and the Qin people in Guanzhong have elected representatives to treat our army with wine and food." ”

Before the words were finished, Zhang Liang's face had changed greatly, and he blurted out: "It's over!" There is no hope left! With Fan Zuoshi's talent and foresight, it is impossible not to see the potential threat of General Right to the former general, and there is absolutely no possibility to speak for us! ”

Li Shiqi's face was also pale, and he said after a while: "If nothing else, it seems that our right general and the former general really have to kill each other!" ”

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Zhang Liang and Li Shiqi are of course not worrying about the sky, in fact, Xiang Yu suddenly sent someone to summon Xiang Bo to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss the matter, because after Old Man Fan knew Xiang Kang's various actions to buy the people's hearts in Guanzhong, he ran to Xiang Yu to warn, reminding Xiang Yu that he must not raise tigers, leaving Xiang Kang to threaten Xiang Yu's future powerful position, and strongly persuaded Xiang Yu to make a decision immediately, reject Xiang Kang's move to make peace as soon as possible, and completely do the matter. Xiang Yu was a little undecided, so he called Xiang Bo and Cao Ji and other cronies to discuss.

It is also evil and evil is rewarded, in history, because Liu Laosan has not done anything to be sorry for Master Xiang Boxiang, Xiang Bo saw Zhang Liang's face and helped Liu Laosan at the Hongmen banquet, completely rewriting the development process of history. And at this historical level, Xiang Kang, who did a lot of evil, offended Uncle Xiang to an intolerable attitude, so after listening to Old Man Fan's suggestion, Uncle Xiang who was with Old Man Fan at the Hongmen banquet changed his course and resolutely stood on Old Man Fan's side!

"Virtuous nephew, what Fan Gong said is for your good, you must not have any hesitation! Xiang Kang's rebel beast took revenge as a favor, and after entering Guanzhong, he not only pursued the monstrous blood feud of the tyrannical Qin royal family against our Chu State, but on the contrary, he also desperately bought people's hearts and curryed favor with the Qin people in Guanzhong, making it clear that he wanted to be the king in Guanzhong, and imitated the tyrannical Qin to fight against the six countries outside the Guanzhong, if you don't seize this opportunity to uproot him, he will bite you back sooner or later in the future! You must not raise a tiger to leave a legacy, you must kill this little evil animal! ”

"Virtuous nephew, the old man is not so hateful because of personal enmity! Do you still remember, when you sent someone to give him an order, telling him to directly enter the hinterland of Sanchuan from the white horse, he actually dared to be your envoy, saying that he did not participate in the Julu Alliance, why should he listen to your commander? (See Chapter 187 of this book)"

"At that time, he was fledgling, and he dared to be so disrespectful to you, and now he dominates Guanzhong and dominates the old land of Qin, what else can he not do to you? If you don't take advantage of his unstable foothold now, quickly cut him off, and when he has gained a firm foothold in Guanzhong, absorbed the Guanzhong army and strengthened his strength, it is not good that he will take the initiative to go out of the customs to start a war against you! ”

Old man Fan suggested not to raise tigers, Xiang Bo was eager to devour Xiang Kang alive, and another important confidant, Cao Ji, also thought that at least all of Xiang Kang's military power and real power should be taken away, under the words of everyone, Xiang Yu of course also made up his mind completely, and said: "Then do it, tomorrow I will convene the princes of the six countries, refuse Xiang Kang's request for peace in public, and force Xiang Kang to hand over all the troops and land and cities, and not give him any chance to negotiate peace!" ”

To find out what happens next, check out the next chapter, "The Great Change"!