Chapter Eighty-Three: The Grass Sings
Looking out of the sky, Liu Bang was worried, and at this moment, his wife Lu Pheasant arrived: "King, haven't rested yet?" ”
"Well, can't sleep"
"Why can't the king sleep? Is the pheasant not serving well enough? Liu Bang turned his head with an easy-going expression, looked at his wife, and gently stroked her face with his hand, and then thought about it for a while.
"It's a matter of the world"
"Ah, I remembered that when I was young, I was full of fighting spirit in my heart, and I wanted to serve the court, hey"!
"Husband, this matter is not your problem, it just so happens that the general trend of the imperial court is to promote famous people, you were born without a background and there is no promotion from the upper class, you didn't meet when you were young, there will definitely be" Lu Pheasant told Liu Bang.
Liu Bang then said: "Hey, maybe that's the case, so the world says that I, Liu Bang, have a good eye for people, don't you know, I didn't meet myself back then, haha, maybe this is a special ability given to me by God"
"Husband, don't think about it, if the Great Qin Dynasty has a discerning eye, pays attention to the selection of talents, and eliminates all outstanding and bad bribery links, maybe today's Great Qin Dynasty is still prosperous and will be an empire, so what opportunity does the husband and other princes have to take advantage of?" Lu Pheasant replied.
"That's right, but for my husband to say something from the bottom of my heart, I really hope that the country and the nation are good, I hope that the people are healthy, and the empire is strong" Liu Bang was righteous and awe-inspiring, and he was unprecedentedly bold, Lu Pheasant looked at his husband, and his heart was full of respect, but then, Liu Bang entered the confusion again.
"What's the matter, husband?"
"Thinking of Ziying, how he wished that he could restore the glory of the empire"
"Ziying is indeed a good Qin king, perhaps, Ziying was able to succeed to the throne earlier, maybe his coercive maneuver will make the empire truly revived," Lu Pheasant said.
"Yes, if Ziying had been the emperor earlier, maybe he would have killed a lot of useless people with his iron wrists," Liu Bang said with certainty.
And Lu Pheasant asked rhetorically: "Why does the husband think so?" ”
"Because when Xiang Yu was about to burn the Abang Palace, he tried his best to prevent Xiang Yu from destroying the national cultural relics, which shows that this person is willing to defend the world with his life and protect the heritage of the nation, the righteous Liu Bangdao, but then Lu Pheasant told Liu Bang: "Husband, you can too"
"Huh? I? ”
"Yes, if you envy others, you will definitely drive something, but husband, Lu Pheasant has something to persuade you" The sudden change in tone aroused Liu Bang's curiosity: "Why is Madam suddenly so serious?" ”
"The husband must become the only king in the entire Central Plains, only the real king can display his ideals" Lu Pheasant is full of confidence to support Liu Bang, and for the woman he loves the most, how can Liu Bang, the king of Hanzhong, not listen, looking back at the vast wilderness, Liu Bang sighed: "Ah, the wind is blowing, madam, it's cold, let's go back to the house"
"The husband is working state affairs, so there is no need to be warm, or pay more attention to rest" Lu Pheasant's care, Liu Bang was very happy, and the couple returned to the dormitory to rest, the moon was shining at dusk, and the cold wind was cold.
Han Xin, Gongsun Yu and others were already in the north, and seeing King Zhai's stern deployment of troops, Han Xin decided to take everyone to a nearby place called Yacun.
Coming here, although Han Xin's generals were dressed in disguise, and the people ate plainly, and there were very thick cocoons on their hands, they looked like hard-working people, and at this time, a father and son came to meet them.
"Father, son doesn't go"
"If you don't go, you can't do it, in today's years, in addition to being a soldier, there is still a way to live, what else can you live in peace?" Father said.
At this time, Gongsun Yu stopped the child's father and asked, "Uncle, why do you have to let your child join the army?" ”
"You don't know, now there are wars again and again, all the vassal states, today you fight me, tomorrow I will fight yours, my father and their generation, finally looking forward to the unification of the world, now it's okay, it's scattered again, and it's going to fight again, in the era of peace, it is the simple happiness that the people want the most."
Gongsun Yu nodded, and then asked, "Where did you go to join the army?" ”
The father replied: "Guanbei Army, King Zhai camp"
"I'm not going, I'm not going......," the child said.
Gongsun Yu was puzzled: "Why don't you go?" My father said that it is a good thing to join the army, but now you don't listen to your father like this, is there any secret? ”
At this point, I saw that my father couldn't help but say: "You don't know, this King of Guanbei Zhai is not as simple as you think, almost all the soldiers they recruited there are nine deaths, and I don't know why."
"Is there a lot of fighting? No, since the Western Chu army marched north, it seems that the Xiongnu and the south rarely fought again, how could they go and die for life? Han Xin said.
At this moment, Han Xin thought for a moment and felt that there must be something strange in it: "Can't you not go?"
"If you don't go, you'll be beheaded," his father said, and Li Jue asked, "Why does King Zhai treat your old Qin people in Guanzhong like this?" ”
"Because the three Qin generals rebelled against Western Chu back then, and then they were not liked by the people, so they wantonly killed the people in Guanzhong, and the people dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak," said his father.
Then Han Xin said: "Let's go and meet this King Zhai"
"Huh? You're going to get into trouble with us."
"Don't worry, no, we'll go to join the army, your son doesn't have to go, don't worry" Han Xin said, and at this time, his father looked confused.
Zhai Wang's place, the non-commissioned officer who recruited new recruits ushered in Han Xin and others, of course, the non-commissioned officer didn't know who it was, right now, Han Xin and others lined up in turn, and the non-commissioned officer who was interviewed was named Jiaowu, who was a warrior with superb martial arts, watching Han Xin and others line up, Jiaowu was very unhappy, so he got up,
"Where did you come from?"
"Grace Village"
"I haven't seen you before."
"I've been doing business outside and just recently returned to the village"
"Why join the army"
"Because ......" Lin Kai was about to interject, but was stopped by Gongsun Yu, so Gongsun Yu continued: "Because in the war era, business is not easy to do, so it is good to join the army, I heard that King Zhai has good military benefits, so we came"
After Gongsun Yu spoke, he saw Jiao Wu's eyes widen, and he dragged Gongsun Yu with his hand, and then Li Jue stopped Lin Kai.
"Haha, it's not small, it's just a wreck, okay, a few of you have been selected" After Jiaowu's words, I saw that Lin Kai was puzzled, so Han Xin whispered in private: "This person has extraordinary martial arts, but he is very jealous, and he sees that a few of us are different from ordinary people, so he wants to try whether we will affect his future before joining the army, so we have to learn to endure"
"One day, Lao Tzu will tear this thousand-knife killer to pieces," Lin Kai said.
Han Xin replied: "You have this strength, but everything is focused on the overall situation"
After enlisting in the army, Han Xin and Gongsun Yu and others were assigned to Zhai Wang, under the command of Lan Qi of the Anxi Army, in the army, in just three days, Han Xin and others were subjected to all kinds of harsh training, and these trainings are not ordinary, all the exercises, as long as they are not done well, they will be fined fifty boards, and there are many severe trainings, soldiers will die because of mistakes and mistakes, if there are soldiers who dare not do it in training, they will be arranged to be real sandbags, that is, they will be killed directly by veterans.
"Kill" With Lan Qi's order, the two soldiers confronted each other, and the veteran said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, you and I are both fellow villagers, today my brother doesn't want to kill you, but ......"
"Nonsense, kill" Lan Qi said, then the corners of his mouth tore the chicken legs, a mouthful of oil full of beard, and a sip of fragrant wine, and then the soldiers killed each other, and blood was spilled on the ground, the crying soldier put down his weapon, and then Lan Qi told the soldier: "You are victorious again, haha, your hands are full of the blood of your fellow villagers, look at you are still rampant, haha"
After Lan Qi's arrogant words, all the soldiers left the battlefield, leaving only Han Xin and the others and the victorious soldiers, lying beside their corpses, which made the soldiers feel sad.
"Don't cry, killing is the basic of a soldier," Gongsun Yu comforted, but the soldier replied: "We are killing innocent people, not enemies, how can it be basic?" ”
"Has it always been like this?" Gongsun Yu asked.
And at this time, the soldier replied: "King Zhai is a notoriously brutal general, what he does is that the soldiers trained by people will be stronger, it can be said that he is an absolutely unpopular general, of course, at present, in the West, no one will attack him, so he is safe"
"What kind of characters are the kings of the three Qins?" Han Xin asked.
And at this time, the soldier told everyone: "King Zhai is a brutal person, has always been to the human body too brutal to take pleasure, for King Zhai, human life is dross, especially the lives of the people of Pingming, when it comes to King Yong, this person is a very lustful person, as long as it is a beauty, in turn, so his brother Zhang Ping does not dare to find a beautiful woman, otherwise he will take it for himself, and there is also a king of Kanto, this person is an extremely good drinker, drunk like life, drunk and dreaming of death, it can be said that the fundamental reason for the defeat of Western Chu back then, It is these three people who are people of interest, driven by big interests, they will easily defect, and they will not take into account everything of the people in Guanzhong."
Han Xin closed his eyes lightly and listened quietly, Gongsun Yu seemed to be a little angry, but Li Jue and Lin Kai could barely suppress their emotions, and what Han Xin saw was a big future that the three of them had not discovered.
Han Xin pondered: "Today's Sanqin, ravaging the people for a long time, is conducive to the Han King out of the mountain, once the Han army is everywhere, the people echo, will be able to righteousness in the world, but, right now, it may be bitter to the people, of course, what we have to do now is to continue to collect the real information we need in the Sanqin land, although Xiao He has some communication with King Yong, but after all, there is still some real information to hide, now, what we can know is the real Sanqin, and it is also the Guanzhong land that is feared."
Gongsun Yu asked, "Han Shuai, what are you thinking?"
Lin Kai mocked: "I'm thinking strangely, I always want to do it, it's just empty talk"
Li Jue looked at Han Xin quietly, and then said, "What should we do next?"
The soldier was puzzled by the words of several people: "Who are you?" ”
"The one who can redress your grievances," Gongsun Yu said.
The soldier's keen intuition felt that these people were different from ordinary people, and then the soldier said: "Our family has passed on a treasure, if you can really redress the grievances of the Qin people in Guanzhong, I will give you the treasure."
Han Xin smiled: "Trust us like this?" ”
"Well, I feel very accurate, there can be no mistake" said the soldier, "You come with me"