East of Xingyang, the Chu army camp, the king's tent.

There are two maps here, one is a topographic map of the area around Xingyang, and the other is a topographic map of the whole world.

At this time, there were only two people in the tent.

One of them stood in front of the topographic map of the world, he was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, tall, and magnificent, and what he was looking at was the Zhao State in the map, and he was Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu.

Standing next to him was an old man of about seventy years old, with gray hair and beard, but his eyes were bright and energetic, and he was the famous Fan Zeng.

Xiang Yu said: "As soon as Liu Bang took Wei and Dai, he was in a hurry to fight Zhao, and the number of people would definitely not be very large. He turned to Fan Zeng and said, "Father, who do you think will win, Han Jun or Zhao Jun." ”

Fan Zeng said: "On the surface, Zhao Jun has an advantage, but Han Xin is cunning, and Chen Yu is just a straw bag. ”

Xiang Yu said with emotion: "Han Xin is a halberd in Langzhong, and he is a child under his crotch, and he used to underestimate him. Ay! Why did he come from such a bad background! and willing to suffer the humiliation of the crotch! ”

Because Han Xin was willing to suffer the humiliation of his crotch and did not resist, Xiang Yu looked down on Han Xin in his heart, even if he had Zhong Liwu's recommendation, he still disdained to reuse this "soft bone".

"The big husband can bend and stretch" is in Xiang Yu's eyes, and for Xiang Yu, he can only stretch but not bend.

Xiang Yu said again: "If it were me, I would have slaughtered that butcher at that time!" ”

Fan Zeng was very helpless about Xiang Yu's many shortcomings, and said seriously: "King Xiang, as long as a person is useful to you, why care about his past!" You see, a few months ago, Chen Ping left again and was reused by Liu Bang. ”

Xiang Yu did not accept Fan Zeng's opinion, and said: "Just Chen Ping, just leave; Han Xin, who called him a soft bone before, I won't be in the company of this kind of person. Father, don't go so far, it seems that you are optimistic about the Han army. ”

Fan Zeng said: "Han Xin is too cunning, and it is difficult to say whether he will win or lose. However, if the Zhao army is defeated, Liu Bang's territory will be larger, and most of the north will be occupied by him, which will be very unfavorable to us. ”

At this time, the subordinate came down to report and sent a letter.

This is a letter from a border guard on the border with Zhao, an update on the battle of Jingcheng.

Xiang Yu smiled when he looked at the back, and Fan Zeng did the same after seeing it.

Fan Zeng said: "Okay, good fight!" ”

Xiang Yu was puzzled: "When I saw Zhao Xie before, he didn't dare to straighten his waist, he relied on Chen Yu for everything, and this change was too great." ”

Fan Zeng said: "If it weren't for this, Chen Yu's straw bag commanded the Zhao army, which would have been destroyed by Han Xin a long time ago, and the Zhao State would soon become Liu Bang's territory, and Zhao Xie would be able to withstand the Han army, which would be beneficial to us." ”

At this time, his brain was running rapidly, thinking about the current situation, and soon said: "The north can't fall into the hands of Liu Bang no matter what, you can send someone to negotiate with Zhao Xie, and the two sides will unite to deal with Liu Bang together." Let people tell Zhao Xie that the state of Chu can provide protection to the state of Zhao, and if the Han army attacks again, we can send troops into the state of Zhao to support. ”

Speaking of this, Xiang Yu became angry and said heavily: "Hmph! I named Zhao Xie as the acting king, and he dared to be the king of Zhao again without my permission, and he didn't take me seriously at all. ”

Fan Zeng said bitterly: "This is a trivial matter, but dealing with Liu Bang is a major matter." As long as you can get rid of Liu Bang, the other princes will clean up as you like in the future, and things will be prioritized. ”

Xiang Yu said categorically: "I will send Wu Shi to see Zhao Xie and ask him to tell Zhao Xie that unless he admits his mistake to me and declares himself to me, otherwise he can't beat Liu Bang, and I don't care." ”

Fan Zeng shook his head and sighed deeply, Xiang Yu, who he fully assisted, is this kind of character, many times he does things according to his preferences, and he does things according to his will, if Xiang Yu is willing to listen to him, the whole world would have been Chu State a long time ago.

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Zhao Guo, Jingcheng Daying.

Zhao Xie has been here for ten days, and in addition to paying attention to the things of the Han army, he also has a comprehensive understanding of the state of the army. Including personnel, military discipline, military salary, training, logistics support, and so on.

In terms of personnel, the promotion, appointment, and dismissal of low-level officers were all decided by Lu Tian, and by Chen Yu, a middle- and high-ranking officer; In terms of military salaries, Gong Zhi was handled in a unified manner first, and then it was distributed; In terms of training, Du Zhen is mainly responsible; In terms of military discipline, Xu Zhong is responsible.

In addition, Zhao Xie is also very interested in military affairs, and often discusses this aspect with Li Zuoche, Du Zhen, and Zhuo Zhongkai.

Zhao Xie corroborated the ancient military theories he had learned in modern amateurs with the actual situation of this time and space, including marching, weapons and equipment, grain and grass baggage, military training, operations under different circumstances, surgical and medical techniques, and so on.

Zhao Xie was diligent and studious, and he was not ashamed to ask, which made the three of them very pleased, and felt that King Zhao was becoming more and more Mingjun.

Not only that, but Zhao Xie was also able to express his own opinions (in fact, Zhao Xie selectively said what he had learned in modern times in combination with the situation of this time and space), which made the three of them surprised by King Zhao's ability and were happy about it.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Zuoche took the initiative to come over to meet King Zhao.

He got straight to the point and said, "My lord, the minister wants to tell you something. He looked at the account and said in a low voice, "There is something about Lu Tian and Gong Zhi." ”

These two people are Chen Yu's cronies, and most of their affairs have nothing to do with Chen Yu, Zhao Xie asked Li Zuo to come quickly.

Li Zuodao: "King, Cheng Anjun put these two people in charge of the two most important affairs in the army, and the situation is very bad. The middle and lower-level officers of our army, who are close to Lu Tian, Lu Tian will promote whom, so many officers go to curry favor with Lu Tian, and the minister suspects that many of them pay bribes; In the military salary, Gong Zhi did a lot of tricks, and most of the time, the actual military salary was only eighty percent of what should be paid. ”

Even if Chen Yu is removed from the position of general, he still has a lot of power, and it is precisely because he has confidence in the current King Zhao that he dares to speak out.

When Zhao Xie heard this, he felt that the nature was serious, and if the two major problems were not solved, it would directly affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

Li Zuoche said again: "King, as long as you can make up your mind, you are willing to come forward to do it." ”

Zhao Xie said: "Hmph! Such moths must no longer remain in the army. When I go back, I will definitely not let him go. ”

This morning, Tanmalay reported that the Han army had already withdrawn from the camp.

Li Zuodao: "Although the Han army has withdrawn, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not attack suddenly. The minister believed that it was necessary to send a trustworthy general to lead 20,000 troops to garrison here, and pay attention to patrolling the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain. I suggest that Du Zhen be sent to take on this role. ”

In the past ten days, Zhao Xie has a certain understanding of Du Zhen, although his military ability cannot be compared with Li Zuoche, at least he is still qualified.

Zhao Xie nodded and said, "Just according to what you say." After returning, the widow must reorganize the army and the government. ”